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IT is now common knowledge that plans for the construction of a 200-inch reflecting telescope are being worked out at Mount Wilson observatory. This enterprise has been rendered possible by the generosity of the International Education Board, which in May 1928 authorised its executive committee to provide for the construction of an astrophysical observatory equipped with a 200-inch reflecting telescope and auxiliary instruments. The proposed new observatory is to be conducted in close co-operation with Mount Wilson and the increased light-collecting power of the 200-inch telescope should permit further studies of the size and structure of the galactic system, of the spectra of the brighter stars under very high dispersion, and of many other important problems. A short account of the plans for the 200-inch in so far as they have matured will interest many readers of NATURE. More complete details are given by Prof. Hale in an article in the November number of Harper's Magazine, the source from which the substance of the present article has been drawn.
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G., W. The Proposed New 200-Inch Telescope. Nature 124, 949–950 (1929). https://doi.org/10.1038/124949a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/124949a0