Up To My Neck
January 22nd, 2003 | by Tony Steidler-Dennison | 1 viewsI’ve been up to my neck in work the past week. We’re preparing a telescope for delivery to the Virgin Islands in February. At present, the indoor testing schedule is seven days a week, nearly 24 hours a day. Couple that with Penguin Shell hours, and I’ve put in nearly 80 hours in the past week alone.
The plus is that the telescope is nearly ready for sky testing. That’s the real payoff - the images we’re able to acquire from our light-polluted parking lot. With the resolution of some camera problems, we may be ready as early as next week to fork-truck this ’scope into the parking lot and start taking images.
Images of light hundreds of millions of years old. Sometimes it’s just boggling.
4 Responses to “Up To My Neck”
By joseph castleschouldt on Jan 22, 2003 | Reply
Tony,
How do they gauge the distance to determine the age of the light? I hope this makes sense.
Joseph
By MasterRa on Jan 23, 2003 | Reply
Yeah.. i’m sure they’ll be beautiful..
Are we gonna get to see any?
By Chanan Oren on Jan 28, 2003 | Reply
Joseph,
This page might answer your question.
-Chanan Oren
By Tony Steidler-Dennison on Feb 5, 2003 | Reply
Thanks for catching that up, Chanan. I’d missed the comment altogether.
I’ve always thought that red shift was the most accurate way to measure distance. The link Chanan posted lists this last, but provides a good working description of how it works. Actually, I didn’t realize there were so many methods.