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Article #3638Re: Hubble
From: Greg Hennessy
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 00:46
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 00:46
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Henry Spencer writes: #But I don't think there's much doubt that the science community would have #been happier with half a dozen 1m mirrors launched in the 1970s than with #a single very impressive telescope not launched until 1990 and then found #to have spherical aberration! Depends on what you are trying to do. Launching a small telescope to work at V band doesn't make much sense. UV-IR-Xray, all are fine, but there needs to be *BALANCE*. I'd argue that there should be a half a dozen 1 meter telescopes, and one large one! *grin* But then I'm and astronomer. -- -Greg Hennessy, University of Virginia USPS Mail: Astronomy Department, Charlottesville, VA 22903-2475 USA Internet: gsh7w@virginia.edu UUCP: ...!uunet!virginia!gsh7w
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Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!charon.amdahl.com!pacbell.com!sgiblab!darwin.sura.net!uvaarpa!murdoch!fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU!gsh7w From: gsh7w@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Hennessy) Subject: Re: Hubble Message-ID: <1992Nov18.004633.7044@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU Organization: University of Virginia References: <BxqL15.DJ2@zoo.toronto.edu> <1992Nov16.034202.26234@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <BxvsCE.466@zoo.toronto.edu> Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 00:46:33 GMT Lines: 18