David Vernet is identified as an optician in the C2PU team at the Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur. [ref]
L’équipe du C2PU. Team entry for David VERNET, Opticien, OCA, département Galilée
The observatory's description of its LISE optical workshop names Vernet as its head and documents fabrication for the C2PU one-metre telescopes. Photographs show polishing and inspection of the primary mirrors. This work connects optical instruments to the practical task of making accurately shaped reflecting surfaces: a reflecting telescope depends on the surface figure as well as the mirror diameter. [ref]
Optique by Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur. Workshop description and C2PU primary-mirror polishing captions; no publication date established
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