A new partnership between the Montana Learning Center, located at Canyon Ferry Lake, just outside of Helena, Montana, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will bring into focus faint stars and galaxies, and distant smudges of color from clouds of gas and dust found deep in space. […]
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US Naval Observatory Receives PlaneWave Instruments CDK1000 Telescope
The US Naval Observatory has had PlaneWave Instruments install a PlaneWave 1-Meter telescope (CDK1000) high atop the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile. The high elevation and stable atmospheric conditions make Chile the perfect location for large aperture research telescopes. The US Naval Observatory funded install took 10 hours from […]