On 29 Nov 2006 06:46:19 -0800, "Tom Polakis"
wrote:

This a-hole used to smoke next to the telescope all the time, and then
they went and named the Space Telescope after him!

http://opostaff.stsci.edu/~levay/pre...g/10_12-17.jpg

The story is that the night assistants at Mt Hamilton used to stash
their cigarette butts in the mirror cell of the Crossley reflector.

Who was the astronomer who discovered a sodium emission line in a
stellar spectrum after lighting up?

Bud
--
The night is just the shadow of the Earth.