NEW GIANT TELESCOPE POSITION IN PALESTINE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23014, 17 October 1936, Page 11

NEW GIANT TELESCOPE

POSITION IN PALESTINE

CONSTRUCTION IN AMERICA A MODEL EXHIBITED NEW YORK, Oct. 15. (Received Oct. 16, at 11.30 p.m.) The model of a new telescope, twice as large as the world’s largest on Mount Wilson, which is being prepared under the direction of Captain M’Dowell for Mount Palomar, was shown for the first time at the Museum of Natural History, It was made possible through the 6,000,000dollar Rockefeller Fund The telescope will extend the human vision through space twice as far as ever before and multiply the possibility of examining other universes eight times, while it will bring the moon to an apparent distance of 24 miles. Astronomers will ride in a small cage and a 66-foot tube mounted in a seven-storey structure. The 500ton tube will be so balanced that a child pushing the rim can move it. The reflector is being ground from a 200-inch glass disc. It will not be finished until 1940.

RESTORATION OF ORDER NO FURTHER COMMUNIQUES (British Official Wireless) RUGBY, Oct. 15. A Jerusalem communique states that the public has been informed that Owing to order having been restored and the absence of acts of violence, the daily issue of the official communique as a matter of routine is being discontinued. Press messages from Palestine say a hopeful impression is gaining ground among the public that the restoration of order will make possible the visit of the Royal Commission at not too distant a date.