Serving nine UC campuses and two national laboratories, Lick Observatory continues to be at the forefront of groundbreaking ...

The first telescopes used lenses, known as refracting telescopes. Small instruments – whether for amateur astronomers ...

The original instrument to occupy the 25-foot diameter dome was the 10.5-inch Bausch refracting telescope (f/15.5) installed in the brand new observatory in 1953. Bausch & Lomb Company gave the ...

The first spectacles, designed to correct farsightedness ... improvements in the coming centuries. Designers of refracting telescopes figured out, for one, that by using two different kinds ...

Astronomy at Alfred University has a long history, dating back to the Civil War when the University purchased its first telescope, a 9-inch refractor made by Henry Fitz. Since the mid-1960s the ...

A 2.4-inch refracting telescope ... get much more satisfaction when they’re finally ready to purchase their first telescope.

For the first eight years of its life, the 24-inch was the sole telescope at SBO, and was kept busy seven ... The 25-foot diameter dome was necessary to encompass the long, f/15.5 refractor. Now, with ...