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Editorial: 2 February 1999

The most exciting event this past month was the installation of the telescope housings at the CHARA Array on Mnt Wilson. Although this might sound boring, they were installed by helicopter and the event received considerable media attention in Los Angeles. The rational behind using a helicopter was that it would be less expensive than installing a heavy-duty crane at each telescope site. It took the helicopter ten minutes to lift and place each telescope housing, and it was all over in an hour. Photographs taken from the Solar tower show a complete lift and place sequence in 12 photographs (see the News page). The first two telescopes will arrive sometime this month. When they are installed, a light-weight crane will be used to remove the dome of the housings and the telescopes will be placed inside.

Otherwise it has been a slow month for news.

I am updating the publications pages of OLBIN. I've also tentatively started a List of Theses in Long Baseline Stellar Interferometry. The list is in the form of a rough draft, and I will work on it and re-arrange it as time permits. I have liberally copied from other Web pages to start this list, but most of the entries will (eventually) be listings new to the Web.

Peter R. Lawson.
1 February 1998

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