From: "Pritzker, Tom" <II >
To: "'Jeffrey Epstein (jeevacation@gmail.com)th <jeevacation@gmail.com>
Subject: Better Lucky than smart
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2016 20:15:10 +0000
We went down to the Magellan telescope (6.5 m) with Wendy Freedman who is a rock star cosmologist. She
recently came to U of Chicago. Once the dovening was over, they told us that they were going to do something
that had only been done once before in history. One of the geniuses had adopted an eyepiece to the telescope and
we were going to look through it with the naked eye. Turns out that the human eye can (still) do some things
better than optics. What they had done was developed 'adaptive optics' for the secondary mirror such that they
were able to reshape the mirror many times per second and thereby correct for atmospheric disturbances from
moment to moment. This allows the human eye to observe at a resolution unprecedented in history. Margot was
the 12th person to do this in history, I was the 13th. We observed Sirius (8 light years). It was quite a show.
Before turning on adaptive optics (580 points on the secondary mirror that can change the shape of the mirror in
order to consolidate the light of the first mirror into a readable image) you only saw a blur of light. Flip de switch
and voila, a tight image of the star. This, of course, means absolutely nothing, but it was better than watching the
Bearss.
tjp
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We went down to the Magellan telescope (6.5 m) with Wendy Freedman who is a rock star cosmologist. She recently
came to U of Chicago. Once the dovening was over, they told us that they were going to do something that had only
been done once before in history. One of the geniuses had adopted an eyepiece to the telescope and we were going to
look through it with the naked eye. Turns out that the human eye can (still) do some things better than optics. What
they had done was developed 'adaptive optics' for the secondary mirror such that they were able to reshape the mirror
many times per second and thereby correct for atmospheric disturbances from moment to moment. This allows the
human eye to observe at a resolution unprecedented in history. Margot was the 12th person to do this in history, I was
the 13th. We observed Sirius (8 light years). It was quite a show. Before turning on adaptive optics (580 points on the
secondary mirror that can change the shape of the mirror in order to consolidate the light of the first mirror into a
readable image) you only saw a blur of light. Flip de switch and voila, a tight image of the star. This, of course, means
absolutely nothing, but it was better than watching the Bearss.
tjp
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