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From: nather@utastro.UUCP (Ed Nather)
Newsgroups: net.followup,net.astro
Subject: Re: Death of Ground Based Astronomy
Message-ID: <463@utastro.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 31-Aug-84 14:36:07 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 31 14:36:07 1984
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   >I have friends [Two of them former unix-wizards] starting a new observatory
   >in Monterey.  They just had their building dedicated in June.  They already
   >have work with their small computer driven 36 inch.  Their users include
   >UCB, NASA, and other installations [all small grants at this time, but will
   >be growing].  There's lots of work on ground systems.
   >
   >--eugene miya
   >  NASA Ames Research Center

Put up a few sunsats, so there is bright "moon"light every night, and watch
your friends give up bright-night astronomy and go back to kernel hacking.

-- 

                                 Ed Nather
                                 {allegra,ihnp4}!{ut-sally,noao}!utastro!nather
                                 Astronomy Dept., U. of Texas, Austin