@anhydrite - Yes, I agree, I was typing with a bias and this should be completely obvious. (that’s part of the reason why I was ‘ok’ with typing it) This being said, I usually try to provide a constructive and fact based posts but I guess I was letting state pride get to me a bit this time. I am certainly a supporter of UMass and I think there is a lot to offer there. I was however a bit off-put by OP’s seeming disregard of UMass when, as Greenman57 said, UMass is ranked higher than SBU as a University. (Especially since he was accepted to the honors program you would at least think he would consider it…) All things considered, it matters little that SBS is a lower ranked school as I’m sure it still has some smart students in it. Also, I would like to correct my past statement about the telescope as it was misleading. As anhydrite said, it is the largest of a specific type of telescope, there are much larger arrays and other types of telescopes. (You still have to admit 50m across is quite large) lol
Again sorry for the lopsided post! 