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2001

2001

Two years after the completion of McCardell Bicentennial Hall, a DFM 24-inch reflecting telescope is installed in the dome atop the new building. Physics professors Steve Ratcliff and Frank Winkler commission the new telescope and its instrumentation.

Feature Image

A 2001 photograph of the 24-inch telescope’s equatorial fork mount arms installation atop McCardell Bicentennial Hall.

Jeffrey Dunham and Middlebury Physics

Curated Resources

Emily Lam, “Heavenly Observatory Features Star Gazing,” Middlebury Campus, page 19, 3 October 2001

Sara Black, “Telescope Brings Life into Focus,” Middlebury Campus, 9 May 2007

“New Eye on the Sky,” Middlebury Magazine, page 12, Fall 2000

“Starry, Starry Night,” Middlebury Magazine, page 12, Spring 2001

Bob Handelman, “Silver Lining,” Middlebury Magazine, pages 26-27, Summer 2003

“Middlebury College Installation,” DFM Engineering

“Installation of Our New 24-inch Telescope,” Department of Physics.

Jennifer Varney, “Ratcliff Wishes on a Midnight Star,” Middlebury Campus, 5 May 1994

Robert Keren, “Seeing Stars,” Middlebury Magazine, 30 July 2012

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