APO - by Current ARC members the University of Chicago, the Institute for Advanced Study, Johns Hopkins University, New Mexico State University, Princeton University, the University of Washington, and Washington State University. APACHE has the 3.5 m monster scope.

Yep, that's a good sign you'll make it to 2,718.

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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.

Would the answer lie in a restraunt in S. Africa?

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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.

George,

I don't have a clue as to what your question means.

Let me make this perfectly clear, the telescope in question is owned by a single individual human being.

Dave Mitsky

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Dave, is it at Kitt Peak? The Calypso? Edit: Add - I forgot to say the name of the guy - Edgar Smith.

http://www.bautforum.com/attachment....0&d=1133269993

Photo credit: jscotti/Baut member.

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I better say the Pope with his 1.83 m Arizona VATT capable of 21.73 magnitude in visible spectrum, or Dave will be laughing at me.

That's correct. Edgar O. Smith was a businessman and amateur astronomer who later went on to earn a doctorate in astrophysics. He constructed the 1.2 meter Calypso telescope at Kitt Peak using his own money. Timothy Ferris mentioned Smith in _Seeing in the Dark_, his ode to amateur astronomy.

http://zimmer.csufresno.edu/~fringwal/kpno.html

http://wkaa.net/article.php?articlei...ist.php&cat=GA

http://digitalcommons.libraries.colu...ns/AAI9956400/

Fire away, Melusine.

Dave Mitsky

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Is there something significant about that number?

Dave Mitsky

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Kilo-e.

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Good job, 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. ??

Kilo-e: http://www.bautforum.com/archive/index.php/t-2306.html

It's too early to think of an astronomy question that will be hard, so I'll take the bookish route:

Who said:

You must not expect to see at sight...Seeing is in some respects an art which must be learned.

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Sir William Herschel

Dave Mitsky

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Right you are. Too easy? I like the quote though. Your turn.

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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]


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.

I like it too.

Who was responsible for the following verse?

I had watched a dozen comets,
hitherto unknown,
slowly creep across the sky
as each one signed its sweeping flourish
in the guest book of the Sun.

Dave Mitsky

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Twas Leslie Peltier's.

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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.

Beat me to it, but I had to look it up. David Levy quotes him here at Amazon: Comets.

I like this: Comets are like cats: they have tails, and they do precisely what they want.

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Yes, both are cool.

No doubt, I finally answered correctly. Expanding on Dave's earlier question....

For the southern hemisphere, where is the largest professional telescope in amateur hands? What is special about this facility?

[Edit: I suppose we should wait on Dave's confirmation. Sorry, I am quite rushed today; I soon leave on an internetless, likely, vacation.]

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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.

Give the man a cigar. It's your turn, George.

Dave Mitsky

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De gustibus non est disputandum.
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.

Thanks, I'll take it. [However, I don't smoke....well, except when I'm on fire! ]

Therefore...
For the southern hemisphere, where is the largest professional telescope in amateur hands? What is special about this facility? Also...How many scopes and the size of their largest?

[I'll be back after lunch.]

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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.