23-October-2007, 03:33 PM
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Order of Kilopi
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Join Date: Mar 2004
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Originally Posted by Manchurian Taikonaut
The fires looks big from space so are any of the observatories in danger like Palomar, Wilson, Radio arrays etc ?
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Don't know of any astronomy-related structures currently at risk. There are threats though.
Pasadena Star News (ironic name):
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From their perch high in the middle of a tinderbox of parched vegetation, there is little for the astronomers at the Mount Wilson Observatory to do but watch - and wait.
"It's scary up here, it really is," David Jurasevich, superintendent for the Mount Wilson Institute, said Monday as fire after fire broke out across Southern California.
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Astronomers are taking turns patrolling for fires each night, Jurasevich said. One scientist watches from the catwalk of the 100-inch telescope where it was first discovered that the universe is expanding.
"We really can't do a heck of a lot," he said. "We've cleared all our ground brush to the Forest Service standards. We basically have to keep watching now and report anything we see."
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