The makers of kitschy commercial religious art of the Christian persuasion should be grateful to the telescope builders of the world for so often putting the secondary mirror struts in a cross shape.
You'd pretty much need something like a hologram placed across the mouth of the telescope. That's what a hologram is--a diffraction grating constructed so as to make an arbitrarily funky image in the diffracted light.
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Date: 2007-12-10 12:44 pm (UTC)