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In article <93022.035547LABBEY@GITVM1.BITNET> <LABBEY@GITVM1.BITNET> writes:
>One wonders what kind of "research" is done with an 8" telescope?
>
>Besides, astronomers don't do "research".  They observe.  "Research"
>implies the ability to change the conditions of the experiment.
>
>Leonard Abbey, F.R.A.S.
>Georgia Tech Research Institute
>Atlanta, Georgia, USA
>labbey@gitvm1.gatech.edu

See A. Mallama's last three papers in Icarus  (6" scope).  Wasn't the Pluto
survey done with an 8" Crookes triplet?   At any rate, many variable star 
observations are done with small apertures.

Research implies the ability to learn something previously unknown.  Experimen-
tation implies that conditions in the system under study are varied, observation
does not require control of the conditions on the system under study.  Research
may be done by either observation, or experimentation.

What you posted has serious implications regarding your attitude.
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