Word: inchers
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Russian telescopes and other astronomical instruments are far behind U.S. instruments. The Russians' biggest optical telescope is a 50-in. reflector that they took from the Germans after World War II. They are building a 104-in. reflector and designing a 200-incher. Their radio telescopes are good, but no better than those of France or Holland...
...through which its pipelines ran. Though the lines traversed Syria for 263 miles, Lebanon for only 20, I.P.C. paid each the same amount (about $364,000 in 1948). Two years later I.P.C. built a giant third line to the Syrian port of Baniyas, began laying plans for another 24-incher from the Horns (Syria) junction to Lebanon's Tripoli...
...Albert G. Wilson, director of Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, Ariz., believes that a 40-in. telescope equipped with a Lumicon will equal a 240-in. telescope in luminescence. The 200-in. Hale telescope on Palomar Mountain, the world's biggest, can be made to equal a 1,200-incher...
Back came confirmation and congratulations on finding the sixth new comet of the year. Amateurs Macfarlane and Krienke were making no plans to turn pro. Nevertheless, Macfarlane last week bought a 10-in. lens, planned to put together a bigger telescope to replace his old $150 eight-incher. "It's something - all those billions of miles of unknown space out there. And the comet - that's just about the most beautiful thing I ever...
Great telescopes such as the 200-incher on Palomar Mountain were designed for gathering faint starlight from a wide area and concentrating it in an image bright enough to make a photograph in a practical length of time. The limit of this method has probably been reached; big telescopes are wickedly expensive and hard to build. So forward-looking astronomers are now looking for other ways to brighten a telescopic image...