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Lisa
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USA
1223 Posts |
 Posted - 02/19/2003 : 08:24:47
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Durning the Amaz!ng Meet!ng in Ft. Lauderdale, I got to visit an Observatory/Planetarium for the first time! Way too cool. The show was excellent. It concerned early developments in navigation. I was sitting in the smart aleck/nutball section next to Phil Plait. So the show was both interesting and fun.
The college staff had also set up a bunch of telescopes for viewing. It was fun to see some of the folks using a scope for the first time. Remember the first time you saw the rings of Saturn or Jupiter's moons? Lots of people got to have a real "WOW!" moment.
The staff at the college was awesome. They hung around pretty late just so a bunch of skepgeeks from a conference could have a field trip. It made for a late night, but everyone had a blast.
So now I'm hooked. There isn't a Planetarium in my neck of the woods, but you can bet I'll be on the lookout when I'm traveling.
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Trish
SFN Addict
USA
2102 Posts |
Posted - 02/21/2003 : 10:29:45 [Permalink]
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| Lisa, You'll have to drop by CO. They do that occasionally out at CU Boulder. |
...no one has ever found a 4.5 billion year old stone artifact (at the right geological stratum) with the words "Made by God."
No Sense of Obligation by Matt Young
"Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith. I consider the capacity for it terrifying and vile!"
Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
They (Women Marines) don't have a nickname, and they don't need one. They get their basic training in a Marine atmosphere, at a Marine Post. They inherit the traditions of the Marines. They are Marines.
LtGen Thomas Holcomb, USMC
Commandant of the Marine Corps, 1943
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Infamous
Skeptic Friend
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Posted - 02/21/2003 : 10:49:28 [Permalink]
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| Cool. What were the scopes like? Schmidt-Cassegrains? Portable Dobsonians? Small refractors? Equatorial mounts? 8 inches? 10 inches? |
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walt fristoe
SFN Regular
USA
505 Posts |
Posted - 02/21/2003 : 11:09:32 [Permalink]
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I got to look through the Mt. Palomar 'scope once. Unforgetable! |
"If God chose George Bus of all the people in the world, how good could God be?"
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Trish
SFN Addict
USA
2102 Posts |
Posted - 02/21/2003 : 11:11:09 [Permalink]
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Generally, at an observatory, the telescope is mounted in a dome. Usually much larger than 8-12 inch telescopes sold for backyard stargazing. Even so, all I use for my own purposes is a little 4.5 reflector.
(One of these years I'll finally learn to type.) |
...no one has ever found a 4.5 billion year old stone artifact (at the right geological stratum) with the words "Made by God."
No Sense of Obligation by Matt Young
"Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith. I consider the capacity for it terrifying and vile!"
Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
They (Women Marines) don't have a nickname, and they don't need one. They get their basic training in a Marine atmosphere, at a Marine Post. They inherit the traditions of the Marines. They are Marines.
LtGen Thomas Holcomb, USMC
Commandant of the Marine Corps, 1943
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| Edited by - Trish on 02/21/2003 11:12:07 |
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