Show NE NEARLY READY DEDY fOR NGY r Departments Save Money for T Ten eri Years for Telescope and Ob Ob- 1 For the past ten years ears the department department depart- depart ment nent of Mathematics and Astronomy of time the University has been heen saving its apportionment money with the goal In ht view of purchasing a good telescope and building a suitable house for tor it At last this goal Las has as been reached f By the year rear 1914 sufficient money had iad been saved sa to purchase the instrument instrument instrument in in- strument and to build the house for it Accordingly Dean J J. L. L Gibson of the School of Arts and Sciences went East and purchased a ver very fine telescope of nine inches ae aperture ture When the telescope telescope telescope tele tele- scope arrived here it was found that it t was larger larget than had Imd been expected For this reason and due to the increased increased in in- creased cost of building materials construction construction construction con con- etc the balance left after the he purchase of the instrument was not sufficient to er erect ct the time house for it It t was therefore necessary to star start saving once more in order that the amount needed for t the e erection of the ri riv new v building might be he realized Money Secured However through President Widtsoe Widtsoe Vidt- Vidt soe the necessary money for the building building build- build ing ng was secured and the plans for its erection started Young and Hansen i receiving g the contract for the time work vork The b building is constructed of buff brick and is two o stories high the first stor story beil being g Ular in ill shape and the sec second nd circular It is 21 feet in n diameter and 36 36 feet Ceet high and amI was erected at af a cost of about f four ur thousand thousand and dollars Th The telescope i is mounted on on ona a ar solid concrete pf pier three ree f feet feet- et square 5 t rarest est esting ing lung on on footings six square feet f feet feet- square and amid seven seven feet in the ground the in order to pre ent prevent the vibrations of the building build- build ing ng g from reaching the telescope the time pier is not touched b by either eithel of the time concrete floors The upper Iper floor floor of reinforced concrete Is balanced upon the walls of or the first story and is ex ex- extended extended ex extended tended outward to form a balcony four feet wide around the building Excellent Telescope The dome is mounted on rollers which operate on a circular steel track so o that the opening which is two two and one halt feet wide ma may be turned towards towards towards to to- wards any part of the sky The building building build build- ing is set some distance back from the walk so the north and amid south points of or the horizon line may he be seen between between between be be- tween the other othel buildings The telescope telescope telescope tele tele- scope is one of the finest in the country coun coun- try Dean Gibson who purchased the instrument finally a awarded wardell a contract to the Alvan Clark and Sons Corporation Corporation Corporation Corpora Corpora- tion of Cambridge Massachusetts for fora a refracting telescope of nine nin inches after having visited all the best manufacturers of telescopes in the United States This company has a world-wide world reputation for making objective objective ob ob- lenses of the highest quality for Cor both hoth large an and small telescopes Among the objectives cs made by this company are the time great inch 40 glass for tho the Yerkes es Observatory the 36 inch Lick the Inch 30 the 26 G. G inch Washington the inch 24 Lowell Lowel and man ninny many others of lesser size The telescope at the time University has not been full fully tested yet but hut it is believed believed be be- that it will prove to be he among the best in the world for roi its size and the purposes for which it is intended It is so constructed that a spectroscope spectroscope scope a l camera or a micrometer may maybe maybo mayho bo ho attached and used in connection with It Magnify Diameters It is believed that the telescope will wiIl Continued on Page 2 Column 5 5 OBSERVATORY NEARLY READY FOR OCCUPANCY Continued from front Page 1 Column 2 permit of a ma magnification of about GOO diameters The largest telescopes sel sel- seldom dom dons dom use a n. magnifying ing power of more than 1000 diameters Even ren with a power of GOO GOO the moon which is miles awa away is i reduced educed to an apparent apparent ap parent distance of miles and every mountain and crater on its surface appears appears ap ap- pears times as large as it does to the unaided eye With this magnification Uon only a ver very small part of of the surface of the moon can be seen at one time through the telescope telescope telescope tele tele- scope for the angular diameter of the moon is a a. little over half a degree and if a power of or GOO is used the whole apparent diameter would be degrees or sixths five of a complete while the most that can be seen at an any one time is only onh ISO degrees or half of the circumference ence of the sk sky The tube of the telescope is nearl nearly twelve feet long and is equipped with witha a driving clock so that when the instrument instrument m in- in strument is on an object and the clock set in motion it will keep the image in the field of view as long longas as the observer wishes Mercury 1 and Venus can also b be bo studied in Iii the daytime daytime day day- time b by the use of this telescope Beginning with the school year next September it is very y likely the observatory observatory ob ob- ob- ob senator will be kept open one evening evening evening even even- ing each week especially during the fall and spring months for the benefit of visitors who llla may be interested in viewing some of the tho beautiful and wonderful objects in the sk sky through a n. good telescope |