PLANS ARE UNDER WAY FOR MOUNTING NEW TELESCOPE

The new Harvard observatory at Oak Ridge is now carrying on a regular program and preparations are being made to mount the sixty inch telescope during the coming summer. Dr. F. L. Whipple is in direct charge of the observatory.

There are now in use instruments of 24, 16, 6, and 4 inch apertures besides two patrol cameras. Every clear night a group goes from Cambridge to Oak Ridge to take photographs because the conditions of light and atmosphere there are superior to those surrounding Cambridge. During the past week cloudy conditions have made these observations difficult. The 24 inch instrument is now testing a photoelectric cell that will be used in measuring the luminosity of faint stars. This is also the instrument that will open the World's Fair in case it is cloudy at the Lick Observatory on June 1.