Compliments from Waite Research Customers:

"Last night I finally got a chance to take the 15” f/4.5 to a semi-dark site, Clarence Fahnestock Park. The conditions weren’t ideal as there was an intermittent, and sometimes steady, wind that gusted to 20 mph. Nevertheless, the seeing and transparency were average. There was at least a 20 degree temperature drop over the course of the evening.

So how did the mirror perform? Amazingly well. Even with the average seeing, the focus snapped. This is definitely the hallmark of a great mirror.

The seeing only supported up to about 200x to 245x (8mm Ethos and Nagler 7T6). Saturn looked great. There wasn’t much color last night, but it was easy to see the gap in the ring and ring shadow. I could also see