Rutherfurd Observatory
Rutherfurd Observatory is the astronomical facility maintained by
Wallace Eckert
's Astronomical Laboratory, in which he constructed the first device to perform general scientific calculations automatically in 1933-34.
The observatory formerly included a twelve-inch (30 cm.)
Lenin refused to pay for or accept the telescope, which remained crated in a warehouse until 1920, when Columbia bought it. The telescope was for many years used almost entirely for student education. It was sold in 1997 to South Carolina State Museum, which specializes in the upkeep of the old Alvan Clark refractors.[1][2]
In the 1970s, the "Columbia CO Survey" built a 1.2-meter radio telescope that operated out of the Little Dome and was the first to map the sky in this important radio band.[3]
Rutherfurd observatory has been in continuous operation since Pupin was constructed, but in 2009 a new "Northwest Corner Building" was erected next to it, six floors higher than the roof of Pupin and blocking a significant portion of its field of view, and putting out a considerable amount of light, interfering with observations in the remaining sky.[1]
See also
References
- ^ "Columbia Astronomy Public Outreach - About Us". outreach.astro.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2021-05-26.
- ^ "Observatory". Archived from the original on 2011-06-29. Retrieved 2011-07-18.
- ^ See a picture of this at http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/mmw/mini_NY_210.jpg
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