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The observatory is located on the property of Union County College on their Cranford, New Jersey campus. It was named after William Miller Sperry [1] and dedicated in 1967. [2] Mrs. Carrie Regina Beinecke and her son, William Sperry Beinecke, made a $150,000 donation to what was then the Union County Junior College. The donation was used to ...
The Kimball has made its rounds of the area, going to the Morris Museum Astronomical Society after leaving Sheep Hill and now resides with the Skyland Stargazers club in their observatory at UACNJ in Hope, NJ. [5] 16 Inch Newtonian (1978-2001) The club's first telescope was completed in 1978 and was a 16-inch Newtonian telescope. The mount ...
New Jersey residents can find out when they can see the station by using the Spot the Station website (spotthestation.nasa.gov), which shows upcoming opportunities as the station orbits Earth ...
The Schommer Observatory houses a 0.5 meter telescope that was installed in 1996. [4]: pp.128, 221 [15] As one of the six extant buildings on the university's Queens Campus, the oldest buildings at Rutgers, the Schanck Observatory was included on the New Jersey Register of Historic Places and the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.
Before Webb, images like these only came from the Hubble Space Telescope, which rocketed into Earth's orbit in 1990. But the JWST pictures reveal the rewards of the 25 years and $10 billion NASA ...
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured photos of one of the earliest supernovas ever seen, with features appearing like grains and knots found in a cut of wood. "Once upon a time ...
After capturing stunning images that surpassed the expectations of astronomers, the space observatory has now revealed a never-before-seen feature in the gas giant’s atmosphere.
In 1997, the primary BBSO telescope was in the 50-centimetre (20 in) class, as were the world's other high-resolution solar telescopes. However, to resolve the fundamental scale in the Sun's atmosphere (photon mean free path of 100 km (62 mi) at the Solar surface), an aperture of at least 1.5 m (59 in) is required.