ESO moving forward

God help them if they ever accidentally aim this thing at the Sun!:
http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Th...Giant_999.html
You've got to love a reflector telescope whose _secondary_ mirror is
larger in diameter than the Hale Reflector at Mt. Palomar. :-)

Pat

Pat Flannery wrote:
God help them if they ever accidentally aim this thing at the Sun!:
http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Th...Giant_999.html
You've got to love a reflector telescope whose _secondary_ mirror is
larger in diameter than the Hale Reflector at Mt. Palomar. :-)

Pat

Better they slap some factor 1,000,000 on of they are going to observe
the sun ;-)

cue visions of smouldering astronomers

Bryan

Bash wrote:

Better they slap some factor 1,000,000 on of they are going to observe
the sun ;-)

cue visions of smouldering astronomers



Since they are getting futuristic with the telescope they should go
whole-hog and give it a nice place for the astronomers to observe what
the telescope is seeing on its optical sensors.
Nothing overstated, just something simple and tasteful:
http://www.625.org.uk/ttc/images/still10d.jpg

Pat

Pat Flannery wrote:


Since they are getting futuristic with the telescope they should go
whole-hog and give it a nice place for the astronomers to observe what
the telescope is seeing on its optical sensors.
Nothing overstated, just something simple and tasteful:
http://www.625.org.uk/ttc/images/still10d.jpg


One of the big problems with building the ESO will be its eyepieces.
Here we see one of the 1000 mm Plossl eyepieces the telescope will use:
http://datacore.sciflicks.com/things...e_large_18.jpg
Although they have superb optics, they weigh over 500 kg each, and
require a large crane to change from one eyepiece to the next.
Luckily, due to breakthroughs in genetic engineering, a seven-meter-high
crane has now been bred:
http://www.birdwatchersdigest.com/bl...tue-777976.jpg

Pat ;-)

Pat Flannery wrote:
One of the big problems with building the ESO will be its eyepieces.
Here we see one of the 1000 mm Plossl eyepieces the telescope will use:

Nah, Plossl's are passe'

That's just another one of Al Nagler's designs.

;-)

Dave

David Spain wrote:


Nah, Plossl's are passe'

That's just another one of Al Nagler's designs.


They are not passé, they are French!
The telescope must have French content.
These Nagler eyepieces have no culture...we spit on them, as they are
unFrench, and therefore merde.
They are like all things American; bloated, gaudy, and lacking in both
finesse and the elan vitale.
It is rumored they demand cleaning on a weekly basis, and that too is
unFrench.
The new telescope shall have style, finesse, and the elan vitale in
abundance. Mayhaps it shall focus sunlight on the uncultured GPS
satellites and burn them from the sky, so that the far superior Galileo
system may rule the heavens, as France is fated to rule a united Europe.
France shall rule a united Europe with style, finesse, the elan vitale,
the Code Napoleon, and Hades missiles.
The new telescope shall be named after this man, one of the most
respected men in France:
http://www.lileks.com/institute/publicity/lewis1.jpg
Yes, it shall be the Very Large Lewis Scope, as his wonderful humor is
as broad as its mirror!
Soon the second of our giant telescopes shall be built, and it will work
in concert with the first to provide views of dark objects in deep
space. It shall be named after this man:
http://www.lileks.com/institute/publicity/lewis2.jpg
Yes, Super Sammy Space Scope shall soon open its mighty glass eye! ;-)

Pat