"Bob Ames" wrote in message
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"Kevin Rehberg" wrote:

Did anyone else that has seen it catch the crude refractor (it's
basically an objective and a couple other elements held together with
sticks)in the foreground of one of the Rivendel? You can only see it
for a total of about 5 seconds, but it's still nice to see some type of
astronomy equipment in one of the greatest movies of all time.

All of 5 seconds? Doesn't sound like a good movie to me. The last
movie I saw was 'Contact' in 1997. There were many shots of
telescopes, including Arecibo and the VLA for a significant portion
of the movie. All in all it wasn't too shabby, but 'Apollo 13' is still
my favorite.

I don't know if you meant it, but it seems that you judge movies based on
the amount of astronomy/space equipment in them. If only "Casablanca" showed
a Televue NP101 in Rick's office:
"Of all the observatories in all the world, she had to walk into mine."

Bob