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 consists of three main buildings: a house, in which students and members of the public may gather, a structure with a roll-off roof (housing a 14-inch telescope) and a 5-meter dome ...

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 ...

The observatory was first proposed in 2001. Then called the Large-Aperture Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), it grew out of an earlier concept for an instrument that would study dark matter ...

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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 ...

The telescope’s massive digital camera was ... Explore the full 2025 list of 10 Breakthrough Technologies. Soon, her namesake observatory will carry on that work in much higher definition.

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 ...