BIGGEST TELESCOPE

Grey River Argus, 17 October 1936, Page 7

BIGGEST TELESCOPE

U.S.A. INSTRUMENT Moon 24 Miles Away (Aus. & N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received October 16 at 10 p.m.) NEW YORK. October 15. The model of a new telescope, twice as large as the world’s present, largest one, on Mount Wilson, is being prepared under the direction of the Navy Officer, Captain McDowell for Mount Palomar. It is being shown for the first time in the Museum of Natural History. The telescope itself is being made possible Through a six million dollar grant from the Rockefeller fund. The telescope will extend the human vision in space twice as far as has ever reached before, namely one million light years. It will multiply the possibility of examining other universes eight times. It irill bring the moon to an apparent distance of 24 miles. The astronomers will ride in a small cage, and there wil Ibe a 66-foot tube, mounted in a seven storey structure. This five hundred ton tube is so balanced that a child pushing tho rim can move it. The reflector is being ground from a two hundred-inch glass disc. It will not bo finished until 1940.