
A FEW WEEKS ago one of the largest and most carefully made amateur astronomical observatories went into operation several miles north of Amherst, Va. The event happened to coincide with the 50th anniversary of telescope making as a popular avocation. The observatory and its telescope are the handiwork of John Wikswo, a chemist, and his son John, Jr., a senior at the University of Virginia who is majoring in physics.
The installation is remarkable in many respects. For example, the instrument embodies more scaled-down features of the 200-inch Hale telescope on Palomar Mountain than I have encountered heretofore. The two-story observatory building, made of masonry, has a motor-driven dome of reinforced fiber glass. The building includes a photographic darkroom, a machine shop and a study. All the functional elements are controlled electrically, including a system of remote dials that continuously monitor the telescope's position as it tracks an object across the sky.
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