Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 / ST 1.0; site saber.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!qantel!hplabs!pesnta!amd!amdcad!decwrl!sun!saber!jc From: jc@saber.UUCP (John Cincotta) Newsgroups: net.space Subject: Re: space telescope Message-ID: <1725@saber.UUCP> Date: Fri, 2-Aug-85 13:57:49 EDT Article-I.D.: saber.1725 Posted: Fri Aug 2 13:57:49 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 4-Aug-85 10:43:50 EDT References: <2860@mordor.UUCP> Organization: Saber Technology, San Jose, CA Lines: 18 > From: > > The space telescope planned for launch in the near future > will have two tubes on it, a red and a blue tube, according > to one of the technicians on the project. This sounds > like it may have something to do with red shift and blue > shift. Can anyone confirm this? *** REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR MESSAGE *** i just last night looked at an article in sky and tell about the space teliscope and it implyed that there were two "digicons" on the two spectrographs that had different sensitive elements on them (bi vs tri alkali) i seem to recall that this makes one sensitive into the ir ant the other is good into the uv John Cincotta Saber Tech san jose 408 945 9600 voice