Mirror support cell

A basic mirror cell can be built using minimal calculation and simple materials.

[1] Only slightly more complex are the wooden, plastic or metal cells which are often glued and which are either not user adjustable or which have only limited adjustment and which are used in lower end commercial telescopes and smaller amateur-built telescopes.

[3][4] There remains a good deal of discussion in the amateur telescope making community over the use of glue and the addition of simple astatic devices in such cells.

Astronomical observatories require a much heavier and more complex mirror support cell.

Such a mirror cell requires multiple mathematical steps of finite element analysis of its deformation under static and moving loading.