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DISCOVER Magazine Vol. 23 No. 10 (October 2002)


The Very Best Telescope
A powerful, new, and rather bizarre collection of six small telescopes atop Mount Wilson is about to change our view of the stars forever




Automated telescope enclosure for the CHARA array

SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Simison, Eric J.; Ferrell, Douglas R.; Ridgway, Stephen T.; McAlister, Harold A.; 
AA(Sea West Enterprises, Inc.) AB(Patrell Engineering Group, Inc.) AC(NOAO and Ctr. for High Angular Resolution Astronomy/Georgia State Univ.) AD(Ctr. for High Angular Resolution Astronomy/Georgia State Univ.)



Erickson Air-Cranes

"High-Tech Telescope System Delivered From the Air"

Erickson Air-Crane Co. LLC of Central Point, Oregon will be teaming up with Sea West Enterprises, Inc. of San Dimas, CA to install an array of state-of-the-art telescope enclosures that would function as part of the largest optical interferometer (mirror) in the world . . .