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To: BenLurkin; Daffynition
The telescope is remote-controlled from the JMU campus. It consists of two cameras that keep an eye on the moon night after night.

What's the world coming to? Even the Man on the Moon can't escape constant surveillance.

7 posted on 05/31/2019 5:25:38 PM PDT by Ezekiel (The pun is mightier than the s-word.)
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To: Ezekiel
What's the world coming to? Even the Man on the Moon can't escape constant surveillance.

That's what science is mostly about. Observation. And lots of it. Btw, that how an Australian amateur astronomer using his backyard telescope discovered that a large comet or asteroid has crashed into Jupiter, creating a hole the size of the Earth in the planet's atmosphere. I understand he left the scope one night, went inside as he wanted to watch some golf game on TV. But he left his camera on and running which was mounted to the scope. He came back to the scope later only to find what the camera had captured.

32 posted on 05/31/2019 10:04:05 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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