Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site mordor.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcs!lsuc!pesnta!amd!dual!mordor!space@mit-mc From: space@mit-mc Newsgroups: net.space Subject: Re: Telescopes Message-ID: <510@mordor.UUCP> Date: Mon, 18-Feb-85 22:54:01 EST Article-I.D.: mordor.510 Posted: Mon Feb 18 22:54:01 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 19-Feb-85 10:49:54 EST Sender: daemon@mordor.UUCP Organization: S-1 Project, LLNL Lines: 12 From: dual!ihnp4!iheds!hon I don't believe you would get any magnification with your single flat plat. When you record the photons with the CCD you lose the phase information. The mirror preserves the phase and allows the magnified image from correlated photons to be cast at the focus where it can then be causght by a CC. Herb Norton Bell Labs