If we could get them to operate at the wavelength of Sodium, and boost the power to 250Watts or so, we could use them for guidestars: just like the AO folks at Lick do. Of course you gotta clear each use/target with NORAD, the FAA and so on. But imagine having your very own guidestar that you can use to operate real industrial strength adaptive optics. Wow majorly cool! And this stuff isn't just for imaging: there's no reason in principle that you couldn't do visual with it.
rdc
----- Original Message -----
From: Stacy Jo McDermott
To: sf-bay-tac@No-Spam
Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 3:54 PM
Subject: Re: [TAC] Green Laser Ptr as a Finder -- NOT
To use as finders - bad idea and dangerous.
To use as helping make out something - OK, if used responsibly. Personally, I'd like to have one as it helps me to really make out the constellation and the borders. Ideally, this is when not a whole lot of people are around.
Stacy
Just give me a dark, clear, steady, Kahleeforneea, starry sky and no one gets hurt.
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