[ATM] Re: Banishing the diagonal

[GARY FUCHS <gary@rcn.com>]

Yes, I wasn't sure if I had remembered or imagined that...


---- Original message ----
>Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 10:41:08 -0700
>From: fabio@voreas.com  
>Subject: Re: Banishing the diagonal  
>To: GARY FUCHS <gary@rcn.com>
>Cc: atm@atmlist.net
>
>You mean like in the good old days in Mt. Palomar and Mt. 
Wilson? (with the 
>exception of carbon fiber) 
>
>GARY FUCHS writes: 
>
>> Art, 
>> 
>> If we're really serious about banishing the diagonal, I'm 
>> thinking we're going to need much, much larger mirrors - 
so 
>> we can sit in the spider...and good insulation/cooling. 
>> 
>> And a hell of a lot of carbon fiber!  
>> 
>> Cheers, 
>> 
>> Gary 
>> 
>> 
>> I agree completely. Lazy, half baked yuppies in 
metropolitan 
>> apartments will buy such gimmiks but the dyed-in-the-wool 
>> astronomer will follow John Dobson's lead when he said 
that 
>> astronomy was meant for ". . . wet eyes" 
>> 
>> Art Bianconi 
>> 
>> George wrote: 
>> 
>> ". . . the big thing going against the idea is that most 
>> people 
>> still want to see the real thing with their eyes." 
>> 
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