News: Astronomers plan giant telescope

"Etok" wrote in message ...

The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation is funding a $17.5m feasibility
study and it could be ready for work by 2012.

This has to be a joke, right? Seventeen Million Dollars for a
feasability study? That's insane.

How much were the feasibility studies for the Kecks?
No I don't know the answer but assume you might.

Seventeen million sounds crazy if it's one guy sitting
in his university office blueskying between lectures.

OTOH material science research, engineering studies,
prototyping software, siting studies, architechure
prototyping, might add up to seventeen million if you
put enough brains on board.

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Martin Frey wrote:
Etok wrote:


I feel very, very strongly, that they should make it a dob.

Let's lobby congress.


Ah... a dobby lobby, at last...

...but from an amateur perspective the hobby dobby lobby.....
or the security guard, the hobby dobby lobby bobby...


Steve

Will Al make a 1,500mm Nagler for it, and will it blow the budget?

Jeff


"Randy Roy" wrote in message
om...
But, who will provide such a scope?

If Celestron, will they insist on using the HD Field Tripod?

If Meade, will they offer the $99 eyepiece special?

If Astro-Physics, will it be wait listed 7 years?

If Televue, will there be a clamshell included as part of the basic
package? Ball cap?

If Starmaster, will Rick Singmaster spend hours over the phone walking
the scientists through proper collimation?

If Stellarvue, will it use one of those nifty red dot finders with the
big window?

If Discovery, will it be a solid tube, truss or split tube?

Inquiring minds want to know.

Randy