| Show GIANT TELESCOPE 1 READY NEXT YEAR new instrument will be one 0 ie 1 of worlds largest f chicago grinding of the 82 inch mirror of the telescope for the new mcdonald observatory operative cooperative co astronomical enterprise of the university of texas and the university of chicago will be completed in time for tests of the new instrument in its mounting at mt locke texas site of the new observatory early next year the mounting of the new instrument already has been installed in the observatory dome and has been completely tested dr otto director of the mcdonald observatory and the yerkes observatory of the university of chicago said recently the mirror cast late in 1933 in corning N Y is now being ground in cleveland the new telescope will be the second largest in the world for a brief period exceeded only by the IW inch instrument of the mt wilson observatory offices nearly ready construction of the offices in the lower part of the dome residences for the staff a power plant and other subsidiary buildings being carried on under the direction of mr W W dornberger architect of the university of texas will be completed before the end of the year the dome itself was finished in march of 1935 the university of texas which received a bequest of some in the will of the late william J mcdonald for an astronomical observatory atory is building and will maintain the observatory and the university of chicago will provide the staff president H Y benedict of the university of texas and J H L stark chairman of the board of regents have been keenly interested in the project which will save the duplication of facilities costing at least east a million dollars in carrying out its agreement with the university of texas the university of chicago has recently added to its already strong astronomical staff dr G P kuiper formerly of the university of leyden and the lick observatory dr bengt formerly of the university of copenhagen dr S Chandra of madras india and more recently of cambridge university and harvard dr philip C keenan of the perkins observatory of ohio state and ohio wesleyan universities dr carl K seyfert of the harvard observatory and dr paul of the university of chicago have been added to the department astronomers named drs seyfert and have been appointed astronomers to serve at the mcdonald observatory with mrs jessie as part time assistant assistant professor C T elvey of the yerkes staff will supervise the activities of the texas observatory during dr strives ves absence most of the members of the astronomy department will make periodic trips to mt locke to secure observational data with the new reflector during the construction of the observatory atory building and the new telescope considerable work has been carried on at mt locke using a 12 inch instrument from yerkes a schmidt camera and other equipment recently work at the mcdonald observatory obtained the first evidence of the existence of red nebulae existence of which was theoretically postulated but never proved by observation |
