Lightless sky

[alokmohan]

- The most important rule at this remote vacation spot is simple: no white light. Even a sliver of the pupil-contracting rays coming from the window of a cabin at Deerlick Astronomy Village could ruin a neighbor's view of the Milky Way. The 96-acre village in rural Taliaferro County in eastern Georgia is designed for amateur stargazers looking for total darkness and wide-open spaces to build weekend homes. <br /><br /><br /> <br />"It's like a lake house for geeks," said Chris Hetlage, co-founder of the village, as he tromped through the darkness toward his observatory.http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071028/ap_on_sc/astronomy_village<br /><br />

 

[adrenalynn]

Sign me up. Right after I buy a 1m RC and a Trifid Gold... <img src="/images/icons/wink.gif" /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p>.</p><p><font size="3">bipartisan</font>  (<span style="color:blue" class="pointer"><span class="pron"><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode" size="2">bī-pär'tĭ-zən, -sən</font></span></span>) [Adj.]  Maintaining the ability to blame republications when your stimulus plan proves to be a devastating failure.</p><p><strong><font color="#ff0000"><font color="#ff0000">IMPE</font><font color="#c0c0c0">ACH</font> <font color="#0000ff"><font color="#c0c0c0">O</font>BAMA</font>!</font></strong></p> </div>

 

[alokmohan]

Did not understand.

 

[billslugg]

alokmohan<br />A 1m RC is a 1 meter diameter Ritchie Chretien. It is a professional style telescope designed for photography. It has weird surfaces and is hard to make, but does not suffer from coma, thus can be made at short focal ratios, thus captures more light.<br /><br />A trifid gold is a very expensive type of CCD camera.<br /><br /><br /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p> </p> </div>