The convection disturbances caused by a telescope mirror being warmer than the surrounding air can cause serious degradation of the telescope image. An evaluation of this effect is derived, and it is shown that a flow of air across the mirror surface will improve the image quality, by eliminating the convection cells and by lowering the surface temperature.
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C. M. Lowne (1979) studied this question.
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