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Originally Posted by PeterM

Thanks for the article, sounds like someone convinced someone to part with an astronomical amount of money in this International Year of Astronomy. As I understood it the "ears" that Galileo spotted on Saturn were just plainly do to the fact that his scopes weren't up to the task. Sounds like a waste of money to me.
PeterM

Yeah. I immediately thought, poor bloke has damaged his eyes staring at the Sun through his scope too much, plus average optics or glass not giving the crisper views our scopes have today.