A Great Telescope? Or, The Greatest Telescope?
Over at Bad Astronomy, Phil Plait is looking for satellite naming ideas, to be collected over the internet. Unfortunately, the one that immediately struck my mind wouldn’t work for the satellite in question, but I want to get it out there so when it does get used (and it clearly will), I have my name all over it.
Okay, here it is: a near-infrared telescope concentrating on the wavelength regime between 1500 and 2500 nanometers. Why that regime? Because that’s the range of wavelengths you get from cobalt-based lasers. Then the telescope itself is the (”a”?) Cobalt Laser Beam Emission Range Telescope. CoLBERT.
/me takes a small bow
