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Chabot Space and Science Center has three observatory telescopes, all of which are open to the public on weekends. "Leah" is an 8" refractor telescope built in 1883 by Alvan Clark & Sons and donated by Anthony Chabot.
Earle G. Linsley from Mills College was chosen to be his successor as director of Chabot Observatory. [1] At the age of 71, Burckhalter's wife died January 23, 1930, while still living in Oakland. [4] In 1924, the 20-inch telescope at Chabot Observatory was dedicated to the memory of Charles Burckhalter, with a plaque mounted on the telescope ...
In 1883, Chabot donated a telescope and the fund to build an observatory to the city of Oakland. [3] The observatory was to be named Oakland Observatory but quickly became known as the Chabot Observatory. The original observatory was built in Lafayette Square, near downtown Oakland, and was moved in 1915 to the hills above Oakland.
In 1989 Chabot Observatory & Science Center was formed as a Joint Powers Agency with the City of Oakland, the Oakland Unified School District, and the East Bay Regional Park District, in collaboration with the Eastbay Astronomical Society, and in 1992 was recognized as a nonprofit organization.
Chabot Observatory calendar records an application of optical tracking during the final phases of Apollo 13, on April 17, 1970: Rachel, Chabot Observatory's 20-inch refracting telescope, helps bring Apollo 13 and its crew home. One last burn of the lunar lander engines was needed before the crippled spacecraft's re-entry into the Earth's ...
The Swedish 1-m Solar Telescope, with a lens diameter of 43 inches, is technically the largest, with 39 inches clear for the aperture.The second largest refracting telescope in the world is the Yerkes Observatory 40 inch (102 cm) refractor, used for astronomical and scientific observation for over a century.
The telescope is still in use today at Chabot Space and Science Center at Oakland, California. John Brashear was admired and beloved by fellow western Pennsylvanians and international astronomers, who familiarly called him "Uncle John".
Chabot Space and Science Center, Oakland; College of San Mateo, San Mateo; ... Planetarium Projector and Science Museum, [19] a museum of planeteria at Big Bear Lake;