Re: [ATM] Large Amateur Telescope

["Pat Bunn" <pbunn@patbunn.com>]

If it pops out and is different from
299,792,458 meters per second - you may have a problem with your black box.

----- Original Message -----
From: "matt" <mariusrf@bellsouth.net>
To: <atm@atmlist.net>; "Thomas Miller" <tommy81@comcast.net>
Sent: Friday, October 29, 2004 6:26 PM
Subject: Re: [ATM] Large Amateur Telescope


> 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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