Re: optical telescope choice

[mjwadness <mjwadness verizon net>]

I would certainly give it a shot!

Mike

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From: "Michael Hirsh (NHS DIS)" <michael_hirsh needham k12 ma us>

Date: 6/20/23 1:27 PM (GMT-05:00)

To: Ken Olum <kdo cosmos phy tufts edu>

Cc: physicstheorynet cosmos phy tufts edu

Subject: Re: optical telescope choice

Hi 

Sure - if we have it I will use it for possible viewing nights

We do that with our astronomy class and a higher power telescope than the 4 inch we have would be great

Mike

On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 12:34 PM Ken Olum <kdo cosmos phy tufts edu> wrote:

Hi, all.  We have the money and we can buy an optical telescope for
astronomy nights.  We don't have something else proposed at the moment
to spend it on.  So it seems it would be better to buy it than to not
buy it.  But we should make sure that someone is going to use it.

Mike Hirsh: would you use it?

Mike Wadness: would you use it?

Ken Olum: would you use it?  Well, I could.  If can someone asks me to,
I would.  But mostly I have been to have using the Cavendish experiment
and the interferometer and talking about gravitational waves.  Since
NANOGrav will be making a big announcement on June 29, I expect this to
continue.  And I do already have a 13" Dobsononian telescope which I
have not been using for this purpose. A computer-controlled telescope
would be make it much easier to do astronomy nights, but that's not why I
haven't been doing them.

Anyone else?

                                        Ken

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