This story appears in the July 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. When you start stargazing with a telescope, two experiences typically ensue. First, you are astonished by the view ...

The still-rotating metal half sphere is dominated by an enormous, lovingly polished refracting telescope—a 60-foot-long, six-ton contraption with two 40-inch lenses at one end and an eyepiece at ...

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Text by West Coast Editor Steve Casimiro; Photograph by Joshua Scott One strikingly clear night, I looked through the eyepiece of the Meade ETX-LS telescope, watched as the four stars of the Orion ...

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Nine people are crammed in a tiny room with no ceiling on the grounds of Kitt Peak National Observatory.It’s cold. It’s dark. Each person awaits a turn at the eyepiece of a 20-inch telescope ...

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