I recall a cloudy night at a dark sky site once, where people shined their flashlights through the focuser of their dobs, to create great beams of light in the sky..... At 11:53 PM 12/13/2004 -0700, you wrote:
Maybe we're looking at this whole thing wrong. Imagine you're the 32 car and you're attempting to pass the 8 car at turn number 2, when suddenly from out of nowhere, you are hit in the face with a stray beam from a green laser pointer. It wouldn't take many incidents like this to pursuade Mr. Miller's insurance company that it might be in their best interest to relocate the observatory to a more suitable site... ;)
Quoting Michael Carnes <moogiebird@earthlink.net>:
I wonder what it would take to buy or lease
a few acres way out in the boonies...
Michael
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