From hand cranks to high-tech: BU's Gulliver Astronomical Observatory gets major upgrade
Stargazers at Brandon University are eager to try out the new dome that protects their state-of-the-art telescope at the top of McMaster Hall - the telescope that is the largest publicly accessible telescope in Canada between Thunder Bay and Calgary. The original dome was built to protect the original telescope when McMaster Hall was constructed in 1971. In 2009 the telescope was replaced with the current Ritchey-Chretien telescope that features a 16-inch diameter, just a bit larger than the…
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