Big, Bigger, Biggest.

[Glasspusher]

The process of deforming (with the little pistons) a mirror in the optical train (adaptive optics) is already in used on several major telescopes, have a look at this..

Adaptive optics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Micaculous stuff!!

John

[George Jones]

check out the five on demand web site, it'll probbaly be there

EDIT : here it is

Demand Five | watch Big, Bigger, Biggest, Series 2 - episode 10, Telescope

I got the message "Sorry this show is for UK audiences only."

I do have a few pictures taken a guy I (used to) know and his buddies, who were there when the mirrors were being installed.

[tinvek]

Thanks so much for that link.

I wish there was some way to record the on demand program.

How long does it stay on their system please?

I would like to show it to my Grand Sons.

Ivor

since the rest of the previous shows are still there i'd guess you're safe till the end of the series. of coure if you have a composite signal lead for your graphics card you could feed it into a video or dvd recorder also if you have the latet version of real player or some other programs it can be downloaded, though obviously thats illegal and a no no