The Little Thompson Observatory Receives the Retired Mt. Wilson 24-inch Telescope

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Dec 2006

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2007 AAS/AAPT Joint Meeting, American Astronomical Society Meeting 209, #218.04; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society,

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The Little Thompson Observatory is a community-built E/PO observatory and is a member of the Telescopes in Education (TIE) project. The observatory is located on the grounds of Berthoud High School in northern Colorado. Annually we have approximately 5,000 visitors, which is roughly equal to the population of the small town of Berthoud.
During 2006 the LTO received the recently-retired 24-inch telescope from Mount Wilson. To provide a new home for this historic telescope, we are building a second dome and doubling the size of our observatory (all with volunteer labor), as well as refurbishing the telescope.
This past year we held a Colorado Project ASTRO-GEO workshop, and used the funding from our NASA ROSS E/PO grant for additional teacher workshops -making use of the baseball-sized meteorite that landed in Berthoud in 2004. The observatory also supported magnet high-school astronomy courses available to students from the surrounding school districts.
We thank the NASA ROSS E/PO program for providing funding.

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