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Unbreakable Dishes

kdogkdog Administrators Posts: 11,680 moderator
edited February 20, 2011 in Other Cool Shots
82 feet tall, 230 tons

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    black mambablack mamba Registered Users Posts: 8,321 Major grins
    edited February 17, 2011
    Pretty impressive subjects....and nicely captured.

    Tom
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    chuckinsocalchuckinsocal Registered Users Posts: 932 Major grins
    edited February 18, 2011
    Very nice shot ... I love those dishes cuz they make me wonder what they're hearing from way out there.
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    CuongCuong Registered Users Posts: 1,508 Major grins
    edited February 18, 2011
    I'm amazed that these giants are being relocated on a regular basis.

    Cuong
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    DogdotsDogdots Registered Users Posts: 8,795 Major grins
    edited February 18, 2011
    Those are some big dishes .. love your title too thumb.gif

    They must collect a lot of dust out there. Do they clean them off?
    Mary
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    kdogkdog Administrators Posts: 11,680 moderator
    edited February 19, 2011
    black mamba wrote: »
    Pretty impressive subjects....and nicely captured.

    Tom
    Thanks, Tom!
    chuckinsocal wrote: »
    Very nice shot ... I love those dishes cuz they make me wonder what they're hearing from way out there.
    Thanks, Chuck! They're basically imaging nebulae, galaxies and such. Apparently they're NOT listening for radio waves from distant civilizations, ala SETI, or so they claim. mwink.gif
    Cuong wrote: »
    I'm amazed that these giants are being relocated on a regular basis.

    Cuong
    That *is* amazing isn't it?
    Dogdots wrote: »
    Those are some big dishes .. love your title too thumb.gif

    They must collect a lot of dust out there. Do they clean them off?
    Thanks, Mary. Yes, a cleaning staff goes out there and dusts them off every morning. No, haha, just kidding. Actually, the wind does howl through there on occasion, so that probably blows off the dirt.

    Cheers,
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    bbjonesbbjones Registered Users Posts: 234 Major grins
    edited February 20, 2011
    kdog wrote: »
    Thanks, Mary. Yes, a cleaning staff goes out there and dusts them off every morning. No, haha, just kidding. Actually, the wind does howl through there on occasion, so that probably blows off the dirt.

    Plus, those are radio telescopes. It turns out that dishes for radio waves don't have to be clean like optical elements. Radio and optical light are the same thing, just with different wavelengths. As a rule of thumb, any kind of light will only be scattered by dust that is as long or longer than the wavelength. The wavelength of radio waves is a few yards, so it would take quite a boulder of dust to mess it up!
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