Yerkes Observatory

We took the terrific tour here. The work for a number of Nobel Prizes was done here.

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The plate-changing room....the wall behind is blurry, because the whole platform around the telescope in an elevator, and it's going down!

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Carl Sagan made the following sphere. He projected images of the moon onto it. NASA took notice, and this is how his relationship with then began.

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Thanks very much for the tour. I didn't realize it was located in southern Wisconsin - I would have said somewhere on a peak behind LA.

Thanks. I think you're thinking of Mount
Wilson.

Thanks much for sharing Peter...

Ideas to ponder..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUWD...e_-P1&index=10


Bernice

You're welcome, Bernice. I show a version of Sagan's Pale Blue Dot at the start of every semester.

Thanks for sharing. I have been in Lake Geneva/Wisconsin several times and have never noticed this observatory prior to 2017.