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Conference tuxedo::northern_middlesex

Title:Northern Middlesex/Pepperell MA, a fine place to live
Notice:Welcome, please read note 1
Moderator:TUXEDO::JANICKI
Created:Tue Apr 25 1989
Last Modified:Mon Apr 14 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:201
Total number of notes:1161

166.0. "MIT's Lincoln Lab facility in Westford" by CASDOC::MEAGHER (In folly ripe, in reason rotten) Mon Oct 25 1993 12:33

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166.1See Astronomy conf.KELVIN::MCKINLEYWed Oct 27 1993 16:2013
166.2TOOK::MORRISONBob M. LKG1-3/A11 226-7570Thu Nov 18 1993 15:099
166.3Some info available through Mosaic.CASDOC::MEAGHERIn folly ripe, in reason rottenThu Jan 20 1994 14:534
166.4Optical astronomy in WestfordDECCXX::AMARTINAlan H. MartinFri Apr 11 1997 18:1826
Re .1:

BTW, the ATMOB home page is at http://www.adac.com/atmob/ .


Re .2:

>  As far as I know, there are no optical telescopes there ...

There's at least one obvious dome for a small optical scope on the left side of
the road, in the clump of buildings where the road first hooks right towards the
buildings near the two large antennas (one movable, one fixed) on top of
Millstone Hill.  I don't imagine it's used for much, though.

On a separate dirt road, I see there's an optics facility:

http://www.haystack.edu/DPS/optics0.htm

I don't know if any of that equipment could be called a telescope.


>...  Neither is it used for defense; it is purely research.

It has been alleged that they get Air Force dollars in exchange for scanning
newly launched satellites.
				/AHM
166.5Many roles...HANNAH::MCKINLEYNota beneMon Apr 14 1997 21:189
>>...  Neither is it used for defense; it is purely research.
>
>It has been alleged that they get Air Force dollars in exchange for scanning
>newly launched satellites.

    There are definitely defense related activities there.  The "Firepond
    Lidar" there is used by some defense companies.

    ---Phil