Home
Forums
New posts
Search forums
What's new
New posts
Latest activity
Members
Current visitors
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
New posts
Search forums
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
Home
Forums
Brown Cafe UPS Forum
Life After Brown
On this Day
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="texan" data-source="post: 955333" data-attributes="member: 38206"><p><strong>On this day, 26 March 1936 The first telescope with a 200-inch-diameter, reflecting mirror was </strong></p><p><strong>shipped -- very, very carefully -- from Corning, New York to Mt. Palomar Observatory in California. </strong></p><p><strong>The lens of the Hale telescopee weighed 20 tons. It was dedicated at Mt. Palomar in 1948.</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong></strong><strong>The Hale telescope at Mt. Palomar remains one of the most widely-used scientific telescopes on the planet -- as it looks at </strong></p><p><strong>other planets and beyond.</strong></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="texan, post: 955333, member: 38206"] [B]On this day, 26 March 1936 The first telescope with a 200-inch-diameter, reflecting mirror was shipped -- very, very carefully -- from Corning, New York to Mt. Palomar Observatory in California. The lens of the Hale telescopee weighed 20 tons. It was dedicated at Mt. Palomar in 1948. [/B][B]The Hale telescope at Mt. Palomar remains one of the most widely-used scientific telescopes on the planet -- as it looks at other planets and beyond.[/B] [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Home
Forums
Brown Cafe UPS Forum
Life After Brown
On this Day
Top
