Engineered light-weight mirrors reduce the weight of the optical assembly while improving its thermal performance. The mirrors used in the ARI 12" Hypergraph feature unparalleled precision in their size class that results in fantastic views of the sky across the entire imaging field.

CFSC™ is a technology that greatly improves the hypergraph's stiffness while keeping its weight low. This technology is engineered to be athermal to the ECOlight™ mirrors, producing high-stiffness mirror mounts that do no warp the figures of the mirrors as ambient temperature changes. Optical sharpness is maintained even during large ambient temperature changes. 

ARI provides a proprietary corrector that was designed specifically for the 12" F4 ARI Hypergraph optical system. This provides full correction and full illumination across the entire full-frame imaging field: 43.3mm diagonal. Sharp full-frame images with zero vignetting from either the corrector or the secondary mirror are the result. 

Without a motorized flats panel, your options are to take sky flats, or to have a large LED panel mounted on the wall. The latter is much harder to automate and set up, but functionally similar.  This is the final piece in a seamless robotic telescope solution. The ARI 12FF is constructed from machined aluminum and carbon fiber with a proprietary optical diffuser.