Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 22:38:08 -0400

From: <tk11@andrew.cmu.edu>

To: "Glenn A. Walsh" <zeissii@yahoo.com>

Subject: Buhl Siderostat Telescope

Glenn,

I strongly support your efforts to keep the 10-inch refractor telescope with its associated siderostat in the Buhl Planetarium Building. This telescope is in good functioning condition. It could be very useful in the program of the Children's Museum for education in astronomy and science in general. It is housed in a location which probably could not profitably be used for a different purpose.

Truman

Truman P. Kohman

Professor of Chemistry Emeritus, Carnegie-Mellon University

Member, Amateur Astronomers Association of Pittsburgh