Subject: A Baffling Question

From: James Rhoads

Submitted: Tue, 8 Aug 95 13:45:37 EDT

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Does anyone know how good the baffling is on the 3.5 meter telescope?
That is, how close to the moon can I point the telescope before moonlight
reflected/scattered off components of the telescope and enclosure starts to
increase my background counts significantly above the sky level?  

(My immediate interest is for planning a near-IR run; the moon will be
about 20 degrees from one source I'm considering observing.)

				James Rhoads (rhoads@astro.princeton.edu)
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