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The Lowell Observatory
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....ell. Dr. Percival borrowed several
telescopes and managed to collect a small staff and began making
observations of the sky. In 1896, Dr. Percival got a 24-inch Alvan Clark
refracting telescope that was 32 feet long. Costing $20,000, it is housed
in a dome made of Ponderosa pine, the dome was built in ten days with te.... Part 2 of Paper
.... historic, such as the 24" Clark
Refractor that is 102 years old. The Pluto telescope dome and John Vickers
McAllister telescope dome, which is 16" long, are also telescopes you would
find at Lowell Observatory. The most modern telescope they have there is
the Anderson Mesa Telescope. Their ninth telescope is located in Western
Australia. Many of these nine telescopes are equipped with state of the art
electronic cameras, auxiliary instrumentation and spectrographs. Recently
they have gotten the.... |
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