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From: fiddler%concertina@Sun.COM (Steve Hix)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle,sci.space
Subject: Re: Moon or Mars? Editorial in _Air & Space Smithsonian_
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Date: 11 Apr 88 18:09:21 GMT
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In article <211@aplcomm.UUCP>, jwm@stdc.jhuapl.edu (James W. Meritt) writes:
> In article <1481@bigtex.uucp> james@bigtex.UUCP (James Van Artsdalen) writes:
> >I am not an astronomer, but it seems to me that if it is useful to place
> >an observatory on the far side of the moon so that Earth isn't radiating at
> >the telescope, it would also be useful to place the observatory to avoid the
> >Sun shining on it.  
> I am afraid that I cannot envision a point which is both hidden from the
> earth and hidden from the sun on the surface of the moon, unless you
> mean in a hole.  Where did you mean?

A large Farside telescope would have 14-day-long nights...this would give
you a place to make very long exposures with reduced tracking efforts, no
weather to worry about, no local light pollution sources, and less vibration
from local truck traffic.

	seh