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Re: Beginner
From: Fred Hebard
Date: 2005 Sep 16, 23:03 -0400
From: Fred Hebard
Date: 2005 Sep 16, 23:03 -0400
I should have said the glass for the horizon mirror is not half-silvered. There is no glass on the horizon, non-silvered side, just air. I suppose one would still call this a split-horizon mirror, as opposed to a whole horizon mirror. On Sep 16, 2005, at 10:56 PM, Fred Hebard wrote: > It's horizon mirror is also split, > so it's tough to bring images into contact: there's no overlap of the > reflected and straight images as with a half-silvered horizon mirror.