RE: Nice saturn tonight...

From: Michael Linnolt ^lt;ml_at_pbrc.hawaii.edu>
Date: Sun Jan 29 2006 - 11:47:11 PST

Well, lets say you measure the FL within 2mm, and the typical
manufacturing tolerances are 2%(?) your total error combines in quadrature
giving dmag/mag = SQRT( (2/848)^2 + .02^2 + .02^2 ) = .028 so your error
in mag = .028*353 ~ 10x ~ 343x to 363x ... so rounding to 2 significant
digits is the best you can do, so about 350x here!

Mike

On Sat, 28 Jan 2006, Jeff wrote:

>
> Well.. 300x would be a nice round figure, but
> it would probably end up being something like
> 353.33333333333333333333333333333x
>
> E.g. 848mm FL / 4.8mm nagler = 176.66666666666666x * 2X barlow =
> 353.333333333333333333x
>
Received on Sun Jan 29 11:52:59 2006


The Astronomy Connection -- Mailing List Archives