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Re: Star Hopping

On Tue, 08 Oct 2002 13:05:13 -0400 Joe Heafner <heafnerj@VNET.NET>
writes:
On Tuesday, October 8, 2002, at 09:42 AM, Edmiston, Mike wrote:

I'd like to get one of the bright-green laser pointers and see
if they work, but they are not cheap. Has anyone tried one of these as

a star pointer?

We just got one for our observatory (Lucile Miller Observatory
<http://users.twave.net/jafowiz/lmo.htm>) and it works perfectly!


I would expect that you could have difficulty seeing the laser beam
unless
there is a minimum of dust or other particles in the air to scatter the
laser beam back to your eye. Isn't that a problem??

Herb Gottlieb from New York City
(Where laser beams are invisible on a clear dustless night)

This posting is the position of the writer, not that of SUNY-BSC, NAU or the AAPT.