Saturday 31 October 2020

Maria Mitchell Observatory and a Cook

 

Maria Mitchell Observatory and a Cooke

The Maria Mitchell Observatory was founded in 1908 in Vestal Street Nantucket Massachusetts. The observatory was named after Maria Mitchell America’s (181-1889) first professional woman astronomer.



In 1952 the observatory housed a 5 inch clark telescope which was given to Maria Mitchell in 1859 by the women of America and used as a guide scope for a Cooke photographic triplet telescope of 7.5 inches aperture.



I do not know when the observatory acquired the Cooke and how long it was used there if it indeed is still there today?


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