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Re: [ATM] Advice on Solar scopes/observation



Actually, those were canvas sails on the original Snow Horizontal Solar Telescope. Been replaced with a 2 layers of corrugated sheet metal painted white, with a layer of air in between so air can cool things down.
Guy

Mark Holm <mdholm@telerama.com> wrote:  Old pictures of solar telescopes at Mt.
Wilson show shades on the upper end of the tubes.



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