Well, any of us who has ever looked through a telescope could say the same, for the two principal types in use today were developed by giants: the refractor by Galileo and the reflector by Newton.

Bausch & Lomb Company gave the University of Colorado a 10.5-inch refractor, formerly the property of Carl L ... in the lobby Fiske Planetarium and the objective glass was used to construct a solar ...

McKim Observatory still houses many of its original instruments, including a 9.53 inch Clark Refractor telescope, a meridian transit telescope, and a gravity driven chronograph. Missing from the early ...

A local chapter of Sigma Pi Sigma, the physics honor society, hosts annual receptions for the induction of new student members. The department operates historic McKim Observatory. McKim contains many ...