New Photographic Telescope

Last spring a plan was proposed at the Observatory for the construction of a telescope of unusual length for the purpose of photographing the stars and planets. Anonymous donors have now furnished the means by which this experiment may be tried. The plan will, therefore, take definite shape, and it is expected that a telescope, having an aperture of 12 inches and a length of a hundred feet or more will be ready for trial at Cambridge in a few weeks.