Show desolation 0 MOON As seen through the new yerkes telescope lunas valleys and hills are drawn within miles of our mundane sphere A glimpse of the starry heavens through a great lens williams bay 22 the first glimpse 0 the beavener through the worlds greatest lens was given to president uni and a party of representative chicagoans Chica gonns at the yerkes tory prof hale and pro barnard were the baste the visitor were shown the two motions of the telescope the clock was beet in motion the lifting floor came up with a motion almost imperceptible the areat dome revolved and the telescope was turned on jupiter director hale then got the star in the held of the finder and president harper was the elret of the visitors to look at the planet through the chicago erat klas jupiter is miles distant from the earth roughly and the telescope bringa it to less than one million miles distant the night deemed an ideal one for ob Ber the sky was cloudless but owing to the atmospheric disturbances of the day before and the fall in temper the seeing was pronounced by the astronomers only fair prof arnard captured by the ch cago university irom the lck tory declares that it is not possible po sible to estimate w at ati teke cope may do for science it will take weeks end possibly months for the the operators to successfully dolve the problems which the at moso here may present we have a right to areat results he said instrument collects 25 per cent more light than does the lick this beani a creat deal since it to penetrate one fourth farther into space were there no wab lema in the space between heaven and earth and the atmosphere was an invariable quantity it would be reasonable to give the awing and tell about what ve kueht to bo able to do with the telescope we have been fortunate in working with the smaller telescope from this site and from this we are able lo 10 eay that the yerkes telescope is located at an especially ideal point it is already assured ly reason 0 tle excellence of experienced here in the dayl time that something may be had about venus and mercury and the question of their rotation peri ode we may possibly confirm either the short or long periods of rotation as assigned to these planets by various observers we van reasonably expect much concise and new information about the moons of jupiter their physical bondt tion and periods of rotation saturn and his raps will be fruitful fields and we shall be disappointed unless we are able to brine down accurate knowledge of tle surface of uranus and neptune this telescope will the world much that is new concerning the asteroids ter the little worlds between mare and jupiter and the science of astronomy will be enriched by its exposures of many of the secret ot the double stars we can promise more accurate measurements of the dis ancie to the fixed stare the moon will be better seen and the little and hille on the desolate surface will be more numerous it is too much to expect of any telescope yet built that it should reveal whether it ever tor life or v hat it is composed of the moon locks as if it were at a distance of miles with the naked eye prof Halee aye that the preliminary work done makes it likely that much attention alil be paid to Bolar work his opinion is that the eite is most conducive the atmosphere here 4 decidedly decil edly letter for than on pikes peak or mount Etna declared the professor i the most delicate observations of the dim will be possible abid undoubtedly science the lenses have already proven to be the beat in existence for this branch of the work the image of the sun at the focus of the instrument ie beven inches in diameter |