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From: johnf@dark.ssl.berkeley.edu (John Flanagan)
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Subject: Amigas in Astronomy (was Re: C-A Adverts. in magazines)
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In article <742@solaria.csun.edu> ecphssrw@io.csun.edu (Stephen Walton) writes:
>    ...the A1000 is being used
>for one scientific instrument of many at Palomar.

  A couple of weeks ago I tagged along on an observing run at the Lick
Observatory on Mount Hamilton.  In the control room of the 120"
telescope I saw an A500 hooked up to a video digitizer.  As I recall,
I was told that one of the professors from U.C. Santa Cruz (which operates 
the telescope) was trying to use it to measure the point-spread function 
of guide stars, as an aid to pointing.  The night I was there it was
being used to while away the hours during exposures -- their game
collection was fairly impressive.

john

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