DISNEY: I
know one of the things that passed through my mind and that was, it seemed
a terrible shame that Don Taylor wasn't there after he'd done so much towards
it. So I went downstairs and rang him up. I said, "Don, we found the
pulsar." And I could hear him sort of thinking things over in his mind
and wondering what could possibly have gone wrong. But anyway, he made several
suggestions. But he said he'd be up tomorrow to come have a look for himself,
but in the meantime to keep fairly quiet about it. Well, we did a few more
runs and convinced ourselves that we'd seen the pulsar, and then we rang
our wives up.
COCKE: Taylor
was very skeptical. He was even more skeptical than I had been. And—of
course, by then, I was utterly convinced that we had it. And so—what
we did was—we made just a continuing series of observations throughout
the night of the pulsar in various colors and things like that. And then
we closed up shop and went to bed.
And then the next evening, Taylor came up. And we set things up again and did another run or two for him, and I think he probably did some more tests then himself. So then, he was convinced that what we had was the real thing.
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Crab Nebula as seen in visible light with ESO's Very Large Telescope in Chile |