John Steinberg wrote:

- Although the blank is enormous, I can't help but note that the scale
of the observatory itself seems extraordinarily enormous by comparison.
This, of course, a purely subjective impression from a layman.

I'm not sure I understand about the "scale of the observatory", John.
Do you mean the dome housing the telescope (rather than the whole
observatory)? It is a huge dome -- 100 feet in diameter and weighing
500 tons (1,000,000 pounds!) -- but it just fits the 100-inch f/5
telescope. Later telescopes were made with shorter focal ratios, partly
to keep the size of the dome from growing too large.

- I'm guessing you've been further massaging the site as the pages that
originally rendered as white in the OS X native Safari browser [1.0 v
85.5)] now appear in the intended gray.

I fixed an error in the cascading style sheets thanks to a tip from a
well-known s.a.a. member. Massaging is scheduled to continue for quite
some time.

Mike Simmons