Word: glared
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Environmental pollution is really a problem for everyone. It now turns out that even the nation's astronomers are bothered. With urban sprawl rapidly closing in on their lonely mountain observatories, the astronomers are faced with a problem of first magnitude: the glare of city lights is threatening to put some of the country's largest optical telescopes out of business...
...Hamilton, which is rapidly being swamped by the incandescence of the San Francisco Bay Area's expanding cities and towns. Even the 200-in. Hale mirror on Mount Palomar-the world's largest telescope-may be seriously imperiled before the decade's end by the increasing glare of San Diego and Los Angeles...
Sensitive to Glare. With a million times the light-gathering power of the unaided eye, the giant telescopes are extremely sensitive to the slightest glare in the sky. Even the light from a city 50 miles away can blot out the dim specks produced on a photographic plate by a distant galaxy or quasar. Smog adds to the astronomer's headache; by scattering ground light in all directions, tiny smog particles can greatly increase the glare over an observatory. Not only the amount, but also the character of the light can affect a telescope's usefulness. Increasingly, mercury...
Technological Tricks. In California, where brightly lit freeways and shopping centers are a way of life, astronomers have long since given up efforts to reduce the creeping glare. Says Horace Babcock, director of the Mount Wilson and Palomar observatories: "It's just not realistic for us to go out now and try to get the cooperation of 80 or so cities in shielding street lights and cutting glare." Instead, California astronomers are trying other tactics. With the help of computers, for example, they can work over stellar images and remove the worst effects of extraneous light during certain types...
...just as the Vice President denounced media coverage of "Any extremist who dignifies our adversaries and demeans our traditions" and "unloads into millions of American living rooms his deprecations against society and disrespect for civilized law," -shaggy-haired c. Wendell Smith, 28, a reporter for the Phoenix, rose to glare at the Vice President from the center aisle...