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Our main telescope
is a 31 cm Newtonian Reflector . We use a variety of lenses and filters
to get the best out of the telescope. The scope itself is a Cave
from California, USA. It was built around 1973, mounted on an Equatorial
Mount with a tracking device.
We don't have a computer hooked up because the general public like to see us find the objects ourselves! |
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The smaller telescope in
the above picture is a Refractor. It is used to view the Sun
for Sunspot activity. Each year we burning up a whole pencil, demonstrating
the power of the sun!
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People have often suggested to use a CCD, however we feel the public prefer to use the eyepiece and photography ties up the telescope too much for public use. |
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Around the Observatory there
are a variety of sun dials, petrified woods, fossil and rock displays.
Inside there are more of these as well as Tektites, Metorites, Wild Flowers,
Photographic Plates, Corals, Posters, Gems, Telescopes and holograms
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| This is a Sundial above
my head.
This is a noon finder. It took Jack a whole year plotting noon to
make this! |
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