Plaskett Telescope Contemporaries On Commissioning
The Plaskett missed becoming the largest telescope in the World, but remained the second largest until the 74 inch (188 cm) reflector at David Dunlap Observatory in 1935 (also in Canada) debuted.
Top 2 in 1918:
| # | Name / Observatory |
Image | Aperture | Altitude | First Light |
Special advocate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hooker Telescope Mount Wilson Obs. |
100 inch 254 cm |
1742 m (5715 ft) |
1917 | George Ellery Hale Andrew Carnegie |
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| 2 | Plaskett telescope Dominion Astrophysical Obs. |
72 inch 182 cm |
230 m (755 ft) |
1918 | John S. Plaskett |
The next largest were the Harvard College Observatory 60 inch and the Mt. Wilson 60-inch Hale.
Read more about this topic: Dominion Astrophysical Observatory
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