Show largest of telescopes Is found to be too big pasadena calif scientists have found that in making the worlds largest telescope they made it much bigger than necess necessary nry the foot dome which houses the idl inch mirrored telescope at mount wilson observatory atory above pasadena could just ns as well have been only 40 feet to house nn an instrument approximately GO 60 per cent smaller according to dr 1 U I IV Ritch le who designed the record stargazing apparatus tile the smaller size lie he said would have been equally effective this wilt will have no effect on work now progressing on mount wilson dr P F G pease of the observatory staff said eald after receiving information of the new finding from doctor ritchie practical importance lies in the greatly reduced possible cost ot of constructing ting still larger telescopes doctor pease said A model embodying the now new ideas has been constructed and named the lc telescope like the great mount wilson instrument this also Is of the reflector type in which a mirror takes the place of me usual lenses A concave mirror reflects the starlight back toward the star to a smaller mirror from which it travels back again through a hole in the larger mirror to the eye ot of the observer scientists found a new method of making the mirrors thus reducing the length of the telescope in the model the mirror Is about IS inches in diameter though the entire telescope Is less than four feet long doctor pease has suggested plans for nn an instrument with lucli mirror to cost approximately WO |