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Pluto's Discoverer's Backyard Telescope For Sale

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the secondhand-bragging-rights dept.

Schart writes "My dad, an amateur astronomer/astrophotographer, sent me this link detailing the potential selling of Clyde Tombaugh (the man who discovered Pluto)'s backyard telescope. It features a 16 inch f/10 mirror which was hand-ground by the astronomer himself as well as a massive superstructure and 1-ton tube."

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  1. From the article by AmoebafromSweden · · Score: 0, Redundant

    "Its primary system is a 16-inch f/10 mirror hand-ground, figured, and completed by the discoverer of Pluto himself."

    But it doesn't actually say it was used to discover Pluto.

    Only that Plutos discoverer made something that completed the mirror.

    1. Re:From the article by troon · · Score: 0, Redundant

      In fact, it definitely was not used to discover Pluto. Pluto was discovered in 1930.

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  2. ill buy it by pablo_max · · Score: 0, Redundant

    i just wonder what the shipping cost will be.