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Michael A. Stecker
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Here I am at Las Campanas with my telesope set up near Canada House
(formerly of the University of Toronto). I used an Astrophysics
130 mm f/6 EDF refractor with film on an Astrophysics 900 mount. My
friend James Foster used a Celestron 11-inch SCT. The
weather and astronomical conditions were perfect for all 10 days and nights. Canada House had a living room, kichen, small library, 2 bedrooms, a computer and a dark room. Felipe Mac-Auliffe was the telescope operator for the Toronto Telescope and was a gracious host. The only negative of the trip was the scorpion we found in the living room! Also, we were later evicted from our room when it was taken over by the chairman of the Astronomy Department at Harvard University -- Robert Kirshner and his colleagues. We were probably the last American amateur astronomers to visit the observatory. The dome above center is the 100-inch Dupont Telescope while the one the right (my left) was the then new Polish Telecope being constructed. |
