Telescope in Lord Of The Rings: ROTK!

"Stuart Levy" wrote:

As a film featuring lots of (radio) astronomical equipment,
human struggle, and quirky personalities, I hope you get to see
"The Dish" some day.

Given the number of recommendations for this film, how can I
refuse? ;-) I'm not a movie fan, but I will endeavor to see 'The Dish'.
Thanks for the heads up!

"Stuart Levy" wrote:

As a film featuring lots of (radio) astronomical equipment,
human struggle, and quirky personalities, I hope you get to see
"The Dish" some day.

Given the number of recommendations for this film, how can I
refuse? ;-) I'm not a movie fan, but I will endeavor to see 'The Dish'.
Thanks for the heads up!

"Stuart Levy" wrote:

As a film featuring lots of (radio) astronomical equipment,
human struggle, and quirky personalities, I hope you get to see
"The Dish" some day.

Given the number of recommendations for this film, how can I
refuse? ;-) I'm not a movie fan, but I will endeavor to see 'The Dish'.
Thanks for the heads up!

Bob Ames wrote:
"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.

As a film featuring lots of (radio) astronomical equipment,
human struggle, and quirky personalities, I hope you get to see
"The Dish" some day.

A favorite scene is where, after one astronomer has
been filling a blackboard with hand-calculations of the lunar probe's
orbit so they can re-point the Parkes dish at it, the
(arrogant stuffed shirt) visitor points out that, after all,
it is well on its way to the moon and can't be more than a few
degrees from it. The moon is right out there in the sky, so can't
they just pick it up by sweeping? And they do.

Cheers

Stuart

Bob Ames wrote:
"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.

As a film featuring lots of (radio) astronomical equipment,
human struggle, and quirky personalities, I hope you get to see
"The Dish" some day.

A favorite scene is where, after one astronomer has
been filling a blackboard with hand-calculations of the lunar probe's
orbit so they can re-point the Parkes dish at it, the
(arrogant stuffed shirt) visitor points out that, after all,
it is well on its way to the moon and can't be more than a few
degrees from it. The moon is right out there in the sky, so can't
they just pick it up by sweeping? And they do.

Cheers

Stuart

Bob Ames wrote:

"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.

I used to live in Albuquerque, not all that far from the VLA, one of the
VLBA scopes in Los Alamos, and the Sunspot observatories near Cloudcroft
NM. (Coincidence: I now live on Sunspot Drive in Las Vegas NV).

All in all it wasn't too shabby, but 'Apollo 13' is still
my favorite.

"The Right Stuff." 'Nuff said. Drove by Edwards AFB a few weeks
ago--brought back memories of that flick.

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