Astronomy, are there really any other subjects?

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Andrew Cockburn wrote:
Ok, I suspect I'm falling into some elaborate trap here, but why golf
???

Golf balls for running your dome on or
a Golf to transport your telescope around in or
a session on the Golf course chatting up the CFO for additional grant
funding.

Wasn't a radio telescope in the USA dismantled to make way for a golf
course?
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*Jonathan Silverlight* wrote:
Wasn't a radio telescope in the USA dismantled to make way for a golf
course?

Big Ear?

Another subject for this thread might be 'law': explaining to the local
constabulary why you're standing in a field at 2am wearing a black
balaclava and holding a pair of large binoculars.
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Cryogenics (separation of eyelashes from the eyepiece to which it has
been stuck with frozen tears)

Health & Safety Assessment (a risk assessment for using heavy scientific
kit, with electrical power, in the dark, could run to several tens of
pages!)


Best,
Stephen

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Stephen Tonkin wrote:

Health & Safety Assessment (a risk assessment for using heavy scientific
kit, with electrical power, in the dark, could run to several tens of
pages!)

Best,
Stephen

Mnemonics - or how to vacate the premises without leaving kit (eg
batteries) behind.

Suffering fools gladly? No - far too late for any of us to learn.

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"Pete Lawrence" wrote in message
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On Fri, 07 May 2004 06:48:31 -0700, Andrew Cockburn
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Biology - dark adaptation, how the eye works etc.

Legislation and local council handling (politics) for light pollution

etc...

Golf

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Hi Pete

That's a fun one. Alan B. Shepard drove a golf ball on the moon at the end
of the Apollo 14 mission.
http://www.nasm.si.edu/galleries/attm/la.a14.html

Regards

Colin Dawson
www.cjdawson.com

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*Jonathan Silverlight* wrote:
Wasn't a radio telescope in the USA dismantled to make way for a golf
course?

Big Ear?

Another subject for this thread might be 'law': explaining to the local
constabulary why you're standing in a field at 2am wearing a black
balaclava and holding a pair of large binoculars.
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Yes, but you're not supposed to also be sporting the latest in high tech
lasers.
erm, or is that just me? But they're so good at pointing out targets in the
night sky.

http://www.telescopes-astronomy.com.au/ (for those who don't get the point)

Regards

Colin Dawson
www.cjdawson.com

"Martin Frey" wrote in message
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Stephen Tonkin wrote:

Health & Safety Assessment (a risk assessment for using heavy scientific
kit, with electrical power, in the dark, could run to several tens of
pages!)

Best,
Stephen

Mnemonics - or how to vacate the premises without leaving kit (eg
batteries) behind.

Suffering fools gladly? No - far too late for any of us to learn.

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Martin Frey
http://www.hadastro.org.uk
N 51 02 E 0 47


Accountancy!
I need to do some major book juggling in order to be able to afford my next
piece of kit.

Or for those with "she who must be obeyed" being able to play around with
the figures so that she doesn't realise that the last car service was
overcharged with half the parts comming from that specialist car parts shop
a.k.a Meade.

Regards

Colin Dawson
www.cjdawson.com

Accountancy!
I need to do some major book juggling in order to be able to afford my next
piece of kit.

Or for those with "she who must be obeyed" being able to play around with
the figures so that she doesn't realise that the last car service was
overcharged with half the parts comming from that specialist car parts shop
a.k.a Meade.

Multiplication - in my case "she who must be obeyed" agreed to my scope
purchase on the condition that she could spend the same amount on stuff
for herself (handbags and the like - I ask you !). So everything gets
multiplied by 2, which means that my LX90 really cost me 3 grand :-(

Andrew

*Colin Dawson* wrote:
*Andrew Urquhart* wrote:
Another subject for this thread might be 'law': explaining to the
local constabulary why you're standing in a field at 2am wearing a
black balaclava and holding a pair of large binoculars.

Yes, but you're not supposed to also be sporting the latest in
high tech lasers. erm, or is that just me? But they're so good
at pointing out targets in the night sky.

Just be careful what you're pointing them at! I've been trying to find a
link to the story of an incident whereby a telescope with adaptive
optics caused an international incident when its synthetic calibration
'star' (a laser) fried a sensor in a soviet satellite. However, I've not
been able to find it and am thinking that it could be an urban legend.
This article from 1997 was interesting enough though:
http://www.engr.psu.edu/News/Eps/199...r/html/lcf.htm

NB: Off-the-shelf consumer laser products usually have a relatively
large beam divergence and low output energies so they're only a problem
for very low flying aircraft if pointed skyward.
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Martin Frey wrote:
Mnemonics

Also, I have to confess to some (OK, I'm being euphemistic) amazement
that neither you nor Pete Lawrence has mentioned "Sleep Studies".

Best,
Stephen

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