Re: [APML] 48 Inch Schmidt Telescopes

[Gene Horr <genehorr@texas.net>]

KGKIRKLEY@aol.com wrote:

> Verrrry Interrrresting?
> What more do you know about the instrument? ie. focal ratio, mount type,
> built by who, location? etc.

I'll need to do some digging tonight.  There's a web page about it but 
I don't have the link here at work.

Working from unreliable memory...

It was built around the 40's.  The mount was built at the same time.
f/1.0, fork mount.  8x10 film.  I think that its original purpose was
asteriod searches.  It is at a University.  They don't have the programs
to support it anymore.

The OTA/mount was fairly heavy (> 1 ton).  The film molding/cutting
equipment was another 1/2 ton or so.  

Gene Horr
genehorr@texas.net

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