Washburn Observatory and Chamberlin Rock
On Observatory Hill in Madison on the University of Wisconsin campus. In the 1950s I saw Saturn and its rings through the 15.6 inch refractor telescope in the observatory. The plaque says "This boulder, brought by the continental glacier from ancient pre-Cambrian bedrock in Canada, was depostied here in the Wisconsin or latest glacial drift, of which this hill is a part."
On this web page there's a small picture of the observatory taken from Lake Mendota and a news story about the telescope having been open to the public twice a month for the 120 years (as of 2000, when the article was published). www.news.wisc.edu/5284
Washburn Observatory and Chamberlin Rock
On Observatory Hill in Madison on the University of Wisconsin campus. In the 1950s I saw Saturn and its rings through the 15.6 inch refractor telescope in the observatory. The plaque says "This boulder, brought by the continental glacier from ancient pre-Cambrian bedrock in Canada, was depostied here in the Wisconsin or latest glacial drift, of which this hill is a part."
On this web page there's a small picture of the observatory taken from Lake Mendota and a news story about the telescope having been open to the public twice a month for the 120 years (as of 2000, when the article was published). www.news.wisc.edu/5284