[Lvas] GWU's new scope

[roger ivester]

LVAS,


Dr. Don Olive is very proud of the new Gardner-Webb University telescope. A 16-inch Ritchey-Chretien telescope with a Paramount mount. I had e-mailed about this earlier. 

 

The focus is electronic and if you look carefully, you can see that the focus is the movement of the secondary.

 

This was a donation to the University ... total value $50,000. I understand that Harvard has several...identical to this one.

 

I was able to do a class on sketching to one of the GWU astronomy classes this past Thursday. Don too, feels that we have to keep this ancient "art" alive. I was honored to have been asked. I thought it went very well...

 

Roger

 

 

  

 

 

 

   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
    The moon and stars to govern the night; his love endures forever.   Psalm 136:9




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