08-16-2016, 07:10 PM
Aloha ahiahi, all (haven't read back...yet). This long post (below; sent to me by ohana in Canada) has nothing to do with the Contested Case Hearing (which is the title of this thread, yet, it's dwindled into oblivion, again. [xx(] Thus...)
FYI: (*Snipped - More at link - Very good article with the scientific analogy of what is transpiring, plus the dollars spent, etc.)
http://optics.org/news/7/8/21
Vancouver-based Dynamic Structures has confirmed it won a $10 million contract to design the enclosure that will house the giant Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT).
Set to feature a primary mirror comprising 492 hexagonal segments and a folded Ritchey-Chrétien optical setup, the TMT's site was originally scheduled to be under construction at the summit of Mauna Kea on Hawaii Island by now.
However, the build schedule and even the eventual location of the telescope were thrown into doubt in late 2015 when its construction licence was revoked by local authorities under pressure from residents opposed to the development on religious and environmental grounds.
Mauna Kea is already home to several large observatories, including the Gemini Observatory, the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope, and Japan’s Subaru Telescope, although the TMT would dwarf each of them.
At the SPIE Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation conference held in Edinburgh in late June, TMT spokesman Fengchuan Li said that although the telescope consortium was continuing to meet with the Mauna Kea authorities on a monthly basis, alternative sites were also now under evaluation – with a final decision on its location expected by early 2017.
Once TMT is up and running, its sophisticated adaptive optics system envisaged is expected to generate images ten times sharper than the Hubble Space Telescope, while it will be able to detect across a huge range of wavelengths stretching from 310 nm ultraviolet light to 28 µm deep in the infrared.
That will allow investigations of early galaxies, black holes, planet formation and characterization of extra-solar planets. TMT scientists are also expected to work closely with those using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), with JWST locating targets that could then be studied in more detail using the TMT spectrometers.
Site choice could impact enclosure design
In Edinburgh, Li admitted that the eventual location of the TMT could affect its precise design, given the different weather and wind conditions to be found at alternative proposed mountain-top sites in the Canary Islands, Baja Mexico, and Chile, compared with Mauna Kea.
Quite interesting. Thinking about starting yet another thread for updates on the Contested Case Hearing Status. [?]
Rest well, all, for tomorrow is another day.
JMFO. ("Frustrated" opinion, not "F*ing, for the record.) Waiting for document for the next hearing to be posted.
FYI: (*Snipped - More at link - Very good article with the scientific analogy of what is transpiring, plus the dollars spent, etc.)
http://optics.org/news/7/8/21
Vancouver-based Dynamic Structures has confirmed it won a $10 million contract to design the enclosure that will house the giant Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT).
Set to feature a primary mirror comprising 492 hexagonal segments and a folded Ritchey-Chrétien optical setup, the TMT's site was originally scheduled to be under construction at the summit of Mauna Kea on Hawaii Island by now.
However, the build schedule and even the eventual location of the telescope were thrown into doubt in late 2015 when its construction licence was revoked by local authorities under pressure from residents opposed to the development on religious and environmental grounds.
Mauna Kea is already home to several large observatories, including the Gemini Observatory, the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope, and Japan’s Subaru Telescope, although the TMT would dwarf each of them.
At the SPIE Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation conference held in Edinburgh in late June, TMT spokesman Fengchuan Li said that although the telescope consortium was continuing to meet with the Mauna Kea authorities on a monthly basis, alternative sites were also now under evaluation – with a final decision on its location expected by early 2017.
Once TMT is up and running, its sophisticated adaptive optics system envisaged is expected to generate images ten times sharper than the Hubble Space Telescope, while it will be able to detect across a huge range of wavelengths stretching from 310 nm ultraviolet light to 28 µm deep in the infrared.
That will allow investigations of early galaxies, black holes, planet formation and characterization of extra-solar planets. TMT scientists are also expected to work closely with those using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), with JWST locating targets that could then be studied in more detail using the TMT spectrometers.
Site choice could impact enclosure design
In Edinburgh, Li admitted that the eventual location of the TMT could affect its precise design, given the different weather and wind conditions to be found at alternative proposed mountain-top sites in the Canary Islands, Baja Mexico, and Chile, compared with Mauna Kea.
Quite interesting. Thinking about starting yet another thread for updates on the Contested Case Hearing Status. [?]
Rest well, all, for tomorrow is another day.
JMFO. ("Frustrated" opinion, not "F*ing, for the record.) Waiting for document for the next hearing to be posted.