[SEL] O.T. But possibly of interest - Old Technology

[Rob Skinner]

> Recently I have been helping to reassemble and restore the clockwork 
> mechanism that allowed the 60-inch telescope to track an 
> object in the sky.  In the early years it often took several hours to expose
the 
> photographic plates and of course the telescope had to be kept moving 
> during the exposure to compensate for the rotation of the 
> earth.  Take a look at:
> http://www.oldengine.org/members/levans/60clock/
> to see some pictures of this device which was in use from 1908 - 1968.

Hi Larry, 
That's one heck of a contraption!  Will you have it set up to run?  Will there
be problems getting it running without a big hole for the weight?

Rob