Yerkes Observatory is an astronomical observatory located in Williams Bay, Wisconsin, United States.
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14 Facts About Yerkes Observatory
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Yerkes Observatory 40-inch was the largest refracting-type telescope in the world when it was dedicated in 1897, although there had been several larger reflecting telescopes.
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Yerkes Observatory was a center for serious astronomical research for more than 100 years.
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Later surpassed by the US Naval Yerkes Observatory's 26 inch, which would go on to discover the moons of Mars in 1877, there was an extraordinary increase of larger telescopes in finely furnished observatories in the late 1800s.
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At one point the Yerkes Observatory had an IBM 1620 computer, which it used for three years.
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Yerkes Observatory was dedicated on October 21,1897, and there was a large party with university, astronomers, and scientists.
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In June 1967, Yerkes Observatory hosted the to-date largest meeting of the American Astronomical Society, with talks on over 200 papers.
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Yerkes Observatory went on to the Snow Solar Telescope at Mount Wilson in California.
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Notable astronomers who conducted research at Yerkes Observatory include Albert Michelson, Edwin Hubble, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Ukrainian-American astronomer Otto Struve, Dutch-American astronomer Gerard Kuiper, Nancy Grace Roman, NASA's first Chief of Astronomy, and the twentieth-century popularizer of astronomy Carl Sagan.
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Some research activities continued at the Yerkes Observatory, including access and use of the extensive historical glass plate archives at the site.
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Major contemporary for the Yerkes Observatory was the well regarded 36-inch Lick refractor in California.
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The Yerkes Observatory was perhaps the greatest of the great refractors, the largest astronomical instrument in the traditional style of the 19th century refractor-based observatories.
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The Yerkes Observatory was built on a 77-acre grounds, with artistically designed landscaping.
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The Yerkes Observatory grounds have landscaping designed by Olmstead, for example.
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