we added the first new small telescopes to the observatory's collection in almost 30 years: two 5-inch Schmidt-Cassegrain Meade ETX-125 EC telescopes. We've tried to put together packages that make ...

The observatory dome is electrically driven, and the telescope has a tracking system designed and built by a senior thesis student. There are also several portable telescopes available for student use ...

20, 1904, the Mount Wilson Observatory was founded ... They gave up on building the telescope, but they had already ordered the glass for the lens, so they gave it to Hale. Hale finished building ...

Student helpers will help you at the main telescope and on the outer observing deck. Although Calvin’s dome, constructed in 1969, is not accessible by wheelchair, we have portable telescopes. Viewing ...

on Tuesday. The observatory consists of a dome and a CDK 350 telescope. “It's not so easy to bring everybody out to Hawaii or to Chile, and actually work with some of the big eight-metre ...

however - as is the James Webb telescope. Observatory and shield must therefore be folded up on themselves, origami style, for the ride to orbit. Only when they get into space can they be unpacked ...