BIG TELESCOPE.
ENTERPRISE OF A WANGANUI SOCIETY. [By Telegraph—Press Association.] Wanganui, last night. The Wanganui Astronomical Society has cabled an order tor a big equatorial telescope by Calver. to be mounted on an elevated site in the centre of the town granted by the Borough Council. The instrument has a diameter of twenty and a half inches, weighs three and a half tons, and has a battery of twelve eyepieces. It is driven by a powerful clock, j and it is believed will be the largest in the Australasian colonies, tho one at Melbourne Observatory excepted. The list price of the telescope ordered by the Wanganui Society is .£6OO.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 267, 20 November 1901, Page 3
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