Yerkes Visit

On Friday October 20, 2006 we visited the Yerkes Observatory for a tour. We were able to visit the world's largest Refracting Telescope- -it has a 40inch lens.

There are several articles about the wonders of this telescope. When the telescope is tracking correctly it is used in research. There is a catalogue of 100 years' worth of telescopic photo images taken through its lenses.




We also went into another smaller 24 inch telescope, we tried observing, but the skies were cloudy so we were only able to watch the dome open and the telescope move around.