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To: Melian
The Vatican got raided. Can someone tell me why a church would own a deep space telescope nicknamed LUCI(fer) in Southern Arizona right next to major trafficking routes?

This 3d3n tweet shows a lack of knowledge on his part.

Vatican police raided the offices of the Holy See's Secretariat of State and its Financial Information Authority, this was an internal action.

From Rational Wiki - The Vatican maintains an observatory on Mt. Graham in southwestern Arizona. The observatory houses the Alice P. Lennon Gregorian telescope with an f/1 reflective mirror. There are a number of organizations, including the Jesuits who use the Thomas J. Bannan Astrophysics Facility which house the telescope; together which make up the VATT complex.[17]

Nearby sits the Mount Graham International Observatory which houses the Large Binocular TelescopeWikipedia's W.svg (LBT). The MGIO has no connection to the VATT except the location although although there is collaboration between the partners on projects. The Max Planck Institute installed longslit infrared spectroscopy imagery modules known as the Large Binocular Telescope Near-infrared Spectroscopic Utility with Camera and Integral Field Unit for Extragalactic Research, or LUCIFER, later renamed LUCI. The modules have been renamed LUCI-1 and LCUI-2 so as to be sensitive...

The VATT and LBT telescopes have no organizational connection with each other and are not housed in the same building but two separate locations on Mt. Graham. The LUCIFER is not a telescope as many kooks claim, but a imaging module for the LBT telescope owned by a international scientific consortium.

1,728 posted on 10/03/2019 9:36:39 AM PDT by pbear8 (the Lord is my light and my salvation)
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To: pbear8
The book Petros Romanos includes a fairly extensive (also onsite) investigation into the AZ Vatican observatory stuff--including the LUCIFER device.
1,753 posted on 10/03/2019 10:35:17 AM PDT by joseburr (Jose Garcia Burrito-toot)
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To: pbear8

Thank you for clarifying about the Vatican telescope. You are always so rational.


1,798 posted on 10/03/2019 5:49:43 PM PDT by Melian (Check yourself before you KeK yourself. ~ Melian)
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