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marsbug
post Jan 4 2008, 01:46 PM
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Hello everybody, I've developed a bit of a fascination with the moon recently, and so I was delighted to read this about a private group in hawai making progress toward putting an unmanned observatory on the moon. I couldn't find any mention of it in either the lunar exploration or private missions section, so I thought I'd start a thread to see what peoples thoughts are on the idea. Is it a good one, and if so why has it not been done before? What exactly will it be used for?


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- marsbug   lunar observatory   Jan 4 2008, 01:46 PM
- - djellison   "We see this as a critical phase of work for ...   Jan 4 2008, 02:23 PM
- - PhilCo126   The best place to put a space telescope is in one ...   Jan 4 2008, 02:49 PM
- - djellison   Fewer micrometeorites, but only by half compared t...   Jan 4 2008, 03:03 PM
|- - ngunn   QUOTE (djellison @ Jan 4 2008, 03:03 PM) ...   Jan 4 2008, 04:01 PM
- - nprev   From http://www.spaceagepub.com/ilo/ilo.overview.h...   Jan 4 2008, 04:21 PM
- - marsbug   Longevity perhaps? With no orbit boosting needed i...   Jan 4 2008, 04:23 PM
- - nprev   Could be; the group's stated goal is to work t...   Jan 4 2008, 04:28 PM
|- - marsbug   It'll be very interesting, and to be honest I...   Jan 4 2008, 04:45 PM
- - nprev   Thanks for the credit, Marsbug, but it was actuall...   Jan 4 2008, 05:26 PM
|- - NGC3314   QUOTE (nprev @ Jan 4 2008, 11:26 AM) Than...   Jan 4 2008, 05:52 PM
- - hendric   Well, for big pie-in-the-sky kind of thinking, you...   Jan 4 2008, 09:49 PM
- - marsbug   Sorry Doug and Nigel, thanks for pointing out my t...   Jan 5 2008, 06:30 PM
- - simonbp   I think probably the key advantage of an observato...   Jan 5 2008, 06:45 PM
- - nprev   Got it...interesting! Still, for this particul...   Jan 5 2008, 07:22 PM
- - simonbp   Oh, forget a 2m dish, just find a suitable crater ...   Jan 7 2008, 12:31 AM
- - edstrick   The sorts of things that make reasonible lunar ast...   Jan 8 2008, 09:07 AM
- - marsbug   A little news on the farside radio-astronomy idea.   Mar 20 2008, 05:49 PM

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