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Originally Posted by Melusine
Just want to mention, the reason I posted Jim Scotti's picture of Kitt Peak is because I know about the Calypso because of his pictures. I read about the McMath-Pierce then, too. The Calypso observatory is apparently very nice with living quarters. (drool) It was also for sale, but it doesn't seem like it was sold. ??
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Originally Posted by Mulusine's first link
The last time a wealthy amateur used a comparable amount of his own money to build a state-of-the-art telescope primarily for science observations he intended to do himself was Percival Lowell, in 1894.
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Sad, and now you say it is for sale.  [Hmmm, how much? Maybe I could start an honest star naming company where contributions go to atronomical purposes. Just dreaming, though.]
Bold to post one must be
for lofty is the prize of kilo-e
Yet greater and higher as the sky
if one obtains the vaunted kilo-pi - [added: anonymous heliochromologist]
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You must not expect to see at sight...Seeing is in some respects an art which must be learned.
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William Herschel?
[EDIT: Nuts! I spent all my time on the dumb poem.  I was too slow to enter this post. ]
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Lighten up! This is a stellar board! Author: duh.
"The Sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the universe to do..." Author: Galileo supposedly.
Last edited by George : 13-March-2006 at 02:47 PM.
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