{"id":260,"date":"2014-05-30T10:31:01","date_gmt":"2014-05-30T13:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/astronomy\/?p=260"},"modified":"2014-06-24T20:39:32","modified_gmt":"2014-06-24T23:39:32","slug":"found-an-old-telescope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/astronomy\/2014\/05\/30\/found-an-old-telescope\/","title":{"rendered":"Found an old telescope! (UPEI’s first telescope?)"},"content":{"rendered":"

What happens when the laboratory technicians are assessing the equipment in the physics storeroom and notice a\u00a0long wooden box on the top shelf?\u00a0\"003\"<\/a><\/p>\n

They open up the box\u00a0and find a telescope.<\/p>\n

\"002\"<\/a>It may seem strange to not know that we had this telescope, but a combination\u00a0of changing astronomy instructors with a departmental move (that causes equipment to end up in new unknown locations) can result in\u00a0an item getting forgotten.<\/p>\n

This telescope is a 6-inch Newtonian reflector<\/a>. I’m not sure how old it is – it sort of has a ’70s look to me. Perhaps this was the first telescope that UPEI Physics had in the 1970s, when observations took place on the roof of the Duffy building<\/a>.\u00a0It does have homemade replacement dust covers, which would fit with the story of how the original dust covers blew\u00a0off the roof during a windy observation session.<\/p>\n

\"007\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The telescope\u00a0was made by Anchor Optical Co. which now seems to exist as Anchor Optics<\/a>\u00a0(a division of Edmund Optics) that makes specialized lenses for research and educational applications.<\/p>\n

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Given the telescope’s size, it should be great for field work. We have material to build a solar filter, so this will probably also become our solar telescope.<\/p>\n

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