[ATM] Large Amateur Telescope

[Thomas Miller <tommy81@comcast.net>]

Hello-

My brother and I are two serious amateur astronomers.  Without going into 
any gory detail, we have built an apparatus with which we have directly 
measured the speed of starlight.  We want to use it to measure the speed of 
quasar light.

Unfortunately, quasars are dim.  We don't have enough aperture with the 12" 
at Owl Observatory in Kalamazoo.  We have unsuccessfully applied for time 
through the National Observatory.

We have tweaked and refined and redesigned the apparatus until we think we 
can make the quasar measurement with a well-guided 40-inch telescope.

We seek to enlist the aid of another amateur with a large, guided 
telescope.  We have an eyepiece adaptor that can connect our "black box" to 
almost any telescope.  Pop in the eyepiece, take three one-hour exposures 
on the central object, and out pops the directly measured speed of light 
for that object, complete with standard deviation.

We would be happy to provide details.

Does anyone know of someone with such a large scope?

Thanks for any help you may provide.


Tom-


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