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Old 14-12-2005, 10:24 PM
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ballaratdragons (Ken)
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Kearn, there is one scene you might cringe at. I did!

Two astronomers are at the South Pole with a 12" - 14" SCT pointing straight up (coz they are at the South Pole ) and coz it's pointing straight up, the corrector plate keeps filling with snow. Well, this 'Astronomer' uses a plastic (or wood or metal ) scraper to scrape the snow of the corrector!!!!! Roughly!!!!!!!

Be nice to have a budget where you just don't care if you wreck it. Just pull another one out of the storeroom! The ESA is paying for all the research.
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