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To: Conan the Librarian

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Functional observatories these days are all “Adaptive Optics,” and in very high places.


39 posted on 09/10/2018 12:52:44 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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But they are also all “reflectors” not “refractors”. Yerkes was the biggest they could make as a refractor. Any bigger the glass would deform under it’s own weight.

Those adaptive optic scopes are incredible!


66 posted on 09/10/2018 2:30:24 PM PDT by Conan the Librarian (The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
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