Re: [ATM] Patent Application for an Automatic Telescope

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

This is definitely NOT hilarious, it's sad beyond words.

Such technology exists as implemented in the past decades on ICBM's , space
shuttle, numerous manned and unmanned spacecraft, the Hubble Space Telescope
, etc.

Here are some links:

- Lawrence Livermore National Labs :

http://www.llnl.gov/sensor_technology/STR45.html

This was the star tracker used on the Clementine spacecraft.

- Ball Aerospace Space Shuttle Star TRacker:

http://www.ballaerospace.com/ct611.html

Just google for Hubble star tracker for example, a completely automatic
telescope little known to the idiots at our glorious USPTO . Hubble's star
trackers were made by Ball Aerospace as well. Raytheon, Lockheed, all major
defense contractors, the Russians, etc have star trackers.
It's great that USPTO is now granting a patent .

Here's a miniature star tracker :
http://jungfrau.tamu.edu/~html/StarNav/home.html

best regards,
matt tudor


-----Original Message-----
From: Richard F.L.R. Snashall <rflrs@rcn.com>
To: atm@atmlist.net <atm@atmlist.net>
Date: Tuesday, October 18, 2005 5:24 AM
Subject: Re: [ATM] Patent Application for an Automatic Telescope


>atm@hudler.org wrote:
>
>>This is hilarious and a little interesting at the same time.
>>Wonder what happens when the dumb user (this is what the invention is for)
>>sets up the scope and turns it on in the daytime to watch it work.
>>
>If they allow it, once again the Patent Office hits pay"dirt";  imagine
>allowing a patent on technology that is already 20 yrs old!
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