50 Years Ago in Sky and Telescope
In looking again at the February 2013 Sky and Telescope, on page 9,
Lawrence H. Aller is quoted as noting that many optical astronomers
were, in 1963, struggling with equipment that was a hundred years old.
(But ample funding was available for novel fields, such as radio
astronomy and space satellites.)
This somewhat puts in perspective the funding issues faced by the
astronomical community today.
John Savard
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