Bausch & Lomb Company gave the University of Colorado a 10.5-inch refractor, formerly the property of Carl L ... Following the renovation of Fiske Planetarium in 2013, the telescope was removed with ...
Well, any of us who has ever looked through a telescope could say the same, for the two principal types in use today were developed by giants: the refractor by Galileo and the reflector by Newton.
THE Yerkes Observatory, which has recently been completed and inaugurated, contains in its instrumental equipment the largest refractor in the world, the diameter of the object-glass spanning 40 ...
McKim Observatory still houses many of its original instruments, including a 9.53 inch Clark Refractor telescope, a meridian transit telescope, and a gravity driven chronograph. Missing from the early ...
FitzRandolph Observatory is located on the campus of Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey. FitzRandolph Observatory was constructed in 1934 to replace the Halsted Observatory. In 1966, a 36" ...