Bausch & Lomb Company gave the University of Colorado a 10.5-inch refractor, formerly the property ... objective glass was used to construct a solar telescope which was installed on the roof of the ...

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 ...

On clear nights, the rings of Saturn pop and the moon’s craters spring to life as Baton Rouge astronomy enthusiasts peer through one of the country’s few remaining Alvan Clark & Sons refracting ...

The second floor consists of the Equatorial Room which is home to the star of McKim Observatory: a Clark Refracting Telescope with a 9.53” objective lens made by the renown Alvin Clark and Sons. The ...