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(New Scientist) Cool Take a tour of Earth's most extreme telescopes   (newscientist.com) divider line 12
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Andromeda [TotalFark]
2011-10-27 09:23:20 AM
Hey, I have some friends observing there right now!

Alas I am a radio astronomer and not an optical one so no excuse to go to Chile, and instead I get to go to eastern Holland for my research. I should've thought about that aspect in a touch more detail before specializing.
 
CaptainWes [TotalFark]
2011-10-27 09:35:39 AM
Andromeda: Hey, I have some friends observing there right now!

Alas I am a radio astronomer and not an optical one so no excuse to go to Chile, and instead I get to go to eastern Holland for my research. I should've thought about that aspect in a touch more detail before specializing.

Still, Cool Story, bro.
 
Ivo Shandor
2011-10-27 11:54:34 AM
Too bad they never got around to building the OWL Telescope (new window).
 
sunami
2011-10-27 12:02:19 PM
I love how telescopes seem to always be named exactly as you would expect them to be. "Overwhelmingly Large Telescope", "Very Large Array", "Square Kilometre Array".
 
nukeim
2011-10-27 12:14:10 PM
sunami: I love how telescopes seem to always be named exactly as you would expect them to be. "Overwhelmingly Large Telescope", "Very Large Array", "Square Kilometre Array".

Waiting for a MOAT?


/very cool
 
Krumet
2011-10-27 03:13:11 PM
Also a tour of an overwhelmingly thick Scottish accent.
 
deffuse [TotalFark]
2011-10-27 05:03:38 PM
Andromeda: Hey, I have some friends observing there right now!

Alas I am a radio astronomer and not an optical one so no excuse to go to Chile, and instead I get to go to eastern Holland for my research. I should've thought about that aspect in a touch more detail before specializing.

The last array, in the ice, was radio... couldn't you have fun and games with that?
 
chard
2011-10-27 06:01:19 PM
Andromeda: Hey, I have some friends observing there right now!

Alas I am a radio astronomer and not an optical one so no excuse to go to Chile, and instead I get to go to eastern Holland for my research. I should've thought about that aspect in a touch more detail before specializing.

Another radio astronomer here. Fortunately for me, I do work in the ALMA bands. No trips to Chile yet, but just got back from Hawai'i.
 
plamadude30k [TotalFark]
2011-10-27 10:00:12 PM
chard: Andromeda: Hey, I have some friends observing there right now!

Alas I am a radio astronomer and not an optical one so no excuse to go to Chile, and instead I get to go to eastern Holland for my research. I should've thought about that aspect in a touch more detail before specializing.

Another radio astronomer here. Fortunately for me, I do work in the ALMA bands. No trips to Chile yet, but just got back from Hawai'i.

Hey, awesome, I'm a grad student at IfA. What were you on, JCMT?
 
MBA Whore
2011-10-27 11:19:28 PM
WTF.....2 radio astronomers in the same thread?

/ cool
 
Vash's Apprentice
2011-10-27 11:40:21 PM
sunami: I love how telescopes seem to always be named exactly as you would expect them to be. "Overwhelmingly Large Telescope", "Very Large Array", "Square Kilometre Array".
SKA? Is it in the shape of a horn section with bad haircuts?
 
musashi1600
2011-10-28 02:51:36 AM
sunami: I love how telescopes seem to always be named exactly as you would expect them to be. "Overwhelmingly Large Telescope", "Very Large Array", "Square Kilometre Array".

The University of Hawaii and Caltech are working on building a new optical telescope atop Mauna Kea called the "Thirty Meter Telescope". Guess how large the primary mirror is.
 
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