Tag: Telescope
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DU’s Chamberlin Observatory offers stargazers down-to-earth perspective of cosmos
Believe it or not, early Denverites – and others – relied on a telescope to help tell time in the late 1800s. Operators needed to standardize the time between two points to prevent people from missing trains and trains from colliding. Relying on the sun wasn’t always practical due to variations in the earth’s orbit…