A number of experiments have been realized by several researchers to understand and analyze the mirror seeing phenomenon. These tests have been performed with different methods and quantities measured also differed. Perhaps for this reason the various data have never been generalized toward the derivation of engineering parameterizations reliably applicable to an actual telescope design.
We will present hereafter an original experiment aimed at verifying the possibility of simulating and measuring the seeing phenomenon by mean of reduced scale tests. Then we will briefly describe also the other main experiments reported and reduce all the measured quantities to a common unit of measure. The test results will be compared to those of similarity and computation models in order to provide a useful theory for understanding and controlling the mirror seeing phenomenon in telescopes.