Re: [ATM] Large Amateur Telescope

["matt" <mariusrf@bellsouth.net>]

Hello,

Without going into any gory detail, what do you mean by measuring speed of
starlight ?
I suspect you may be measuring something else, maybe redshift ?

best regards,
matt tudor

-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Miller <tommy81@comcast.net>
To: atm@atmlist.net <atm@atmlist.net>
Date: Friday, October 29, 2004 5:52 PM
Subject: [ATM] Large Amateur Telescope


>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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