tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post2773002300676992096..comments2023-09-27T07:44:19.769-04:00Comments on Sabine Hossenfelder: Backreaction: First Light for the Gran Telescopio CanariasSabine Hossenfelderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-73758370279172953412007-07-20T12:40:00.000-04:002007-07-20T12:40:00.000-04:00Hi StefanYou can find information in english at Gr...Hi Stefan<BR/><BR/>You can find information in english at Grantecan.es the public consortium that built the telescope and at www.iac.es the astrophysics institute at the canary islands whose facilities host the new telescope.<BR/><BR/>You might want to know that all the data collected by the different instruments to be used with the telescope (some of them already built some of them yet to be Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-87762190866072736462007-07-16T10:31:00.000-04:002007-07-16T10:31:00.000-04:00Have you seen this? It looks like it was a very n...Have you seen <A HREF="http://www.brianmay.com/brian/brianssb/brianssb.html" REL="nofollow">this</A>? It looks like it was a very nice event!amaragrapshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15769062084934190681noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-28814655966204790262007-07-15T19:01:00.000-04:002007-07-15T19:01:00.000-04:00Hi Stefan,great news! I am considering a week at t...Hi Stefan,<BR/><BR/>great news! I am considering a week at the very same site... For visual observing! With a few amateurs we are searching for dark sites, and the roque de los muchachos seems a nice idea (I also have friends in Magic, which by the way has a mirror of 17m diameter... but works with Cherenkov light). <BR/><BR/>As for the 50 seconds exposure, I am unimpressed! The pair is a 14.3 Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-17558192236394197212007-07-15T08:26:00.000-04:002007-07-15T08:26:00.000-04:00Dear Stefan,Absolutely! :-) I have been following ...Dear Stefan,<BR/><BR/>Absolutely! :-) I have been following the Brian May story; i.e. his PhD work on zodiacal dust. It's a fantastic story and I'm really tickled about what he did. <BR/><BR/>He's not easy to reach, and honestly, I'm not sure yet I've been successful, but at least his publisher forwarded an important package from me and the interplanetary dust community, about one month ago, a amaragrapshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15769062084934190681noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-37686118681993893352007-07-15T08:09:00.000-04:002007-07-15T08:09:00.000-04:00Hi Urbano,great :-). Does Amara know that Brian Ma...Hi Urbano,<BR/><BR/>great :-). Does Amara know that Brian May worked on dust in the Solar System? Problably yes...<BR/><BR/>Best, stefanstefanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09495628046446378453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-44588104969424469772007-07-15T07:56:00.000-04:002007-07-15T07:56:00.000-04:00And here you can find more information on it too, ...And <A HREF="http://ofteninerror.blogspot.com/2007/07/we-will-rock-you-or-gtc-first-light.html" REL="nofollow">here</A> you can find more information on it too, including what Queen has to say about it. :-)Oftenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14518912748057139954noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-42416656628091407652007-07-15T06:16:00.000-04:002007-07-15T06:16:00.000-04:00Hi Mike,thank you for the link!Here are some more ...Hi Mike,<BR/><BR/>thank you for the link!<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://www.eno.iac.es/observatories.php?op1=4&lang=en&id=19" REL="nofollow">Here</A> are some more photos which show the mechanics of the telescope, albeit without further explanations. The general text about the the GTC is the same as in the link above.<BR/><BR/>Best, stefanstefanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09495628046446378453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-91988990524008172562007-07-15T03:48:00.000-04:002007-07-15T03:48:00.000-04:00Hi Stephan,I found this photo of the unfinished pr...Hi Stephan,<BR/><BR/>I found this photo of the unfinished primary mirror,showing the mechanicals inolved with the active/adaptive optics.<BR/><BR/>http://news.ufl.edu/wp-content/uf-news-post-images/print/1117.jpg<BR/><BR/>MikeMAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com