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Customer Education

To help you get the best result from your project, we publish our methods openly — the same procedures we use in the lab. Everything here is free to use, and you are welcome to contact us with questions.

Cleaning Your Telescope Mirror

A dirty mirror costs you far less performance than most people assume, and a badly cleaned one can cost you the coating. This is our most watched video: how to clean a telescope mirror at home without damaging the surface.

How to Clean your Telescope Mirror

If a mirror is genuinely past cleaning, recoating is the answer rather than harder scrubbing. See our coating services.

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Diagonal Calculator

We offer this software utility to calculate the correct size diagonal mirror for your Newtonian telescope project. It is straightforward to use and handles off-axis illumination calculations as well.

Download the install package — Windows installer.

Newtonian Diagonal Calculator — how to use it
Optic Wave Labs Diagonal Calculator software calculating secondary mirror size

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Packing & Shipping Your Optics

Most shipping damage happens before the parcel is collected. These two videos show exactly how we want optics wrapped and boxed for the journey to us — follow them and your mirror arrives in the condition it left in.

How to wrap optics
How to box your mirror

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More Videos

We publish instructional videos covering telescope optics, from mirror care through to coating and testing procedures in the lab.

Optic Wave Laboratories on YouTube

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