Thanks you all for perticipating in what turned out to be a fascinating LIVE dicussion with professor Alexei Filippenko.
I have posted a text file of the entire conversation here:
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/M...eScopes/files/
and here: http://www.darksky.net.au/Alex Filippenko.txt
Many Thanks
Bert Candusio
AAIRC Service