Talk:Yerkes Observatory

message: Oh, dear ...
Tried to clear this up.  Use of convert function gives slightly rounded numbers.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ozzie42 (talk • contribs) 22:26, 10 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Make up your minds: is it 100 or 102 cm? 

message: Closer to the truth, I believe, that the grounds were designed by the architectural firm, Olmsted Brothers, comprised of John Charles Olmsted and Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. in 1906, three years after the death of the senior Olmsted.
See:
* PROPOSAL FOR THE PURCHASE OF THE YERKES OBSERVATORY SITE IN WILLIAMS BAY, WISCONSIN prepared by Aurora University. The proposal cites John Olmsted as the landscape architect.  See Historic Yerkes Landscape page 5.
* Treemendous,Wisconsin Natural Resources Magazine See The Trees at Yerkes Observatory, at the bottom of the page.
I'll update the article myself when I have time; other editors are welcome to confirm these references and update as well. Gosgood 15:16, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Claim that [[Frederick Law Olmsted]] designed the grounds of Yerkes Observatory is misleading 

message: The 102 cm (40 inch) refractor at the Yerkes Observatory is a landmark telescope and there is practically nothing about it in this article. This is a major oversite and i hope someone gets around to writing an article on it re: it's history, construction, place in the world as the worlds largest refractor...etc. 64.0.112.58 (talk) 16:03, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: 102 cm (40 inch) refractor at the Yerkes Observatory

message: there is no mention of thee focal length of the primary lens.
He telescope is mentioned in the page of worlds longest telescopes.
  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.94.232.102 (talk) 15:10, 3 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Focal length 

message: there is no mention of thee focal length of the primary lens.
He telescope is mentioned in the page of list_of_the_longest_optical_telescopes  .
  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.94.232.102 (talk) 15:16, 3 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Focal length 

message: I check pages listed in :Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of :Yerkes Observatory's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.
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I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT⚡ 18:10, 30 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Orphaned references in [[:Yerkes Observatory]] 

message: The main page has a fact today that the first known photograph of Pluto was taken at Yerkes Observatory in 1909. I'm wondering why it isn't mentioned in the article, as it seems like a very interesting part of its history. Cheesycow5 (talk) 22:31, 20 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  No mention of Pluto? 

message: The description of the photo of two men at a lens is titled "Alvan Clark polishes the big Yerkes objective lens in 1896". This implies it is the father, Alvan Clark, and the hyperlink points to him: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvan_Clark. But his page says he died in 1887 - 9 years before the stated photo date. I think it will be the son and, indeed, his page has that same picture and description (minus the link): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvan_Graham_Clark.
I think the picture Description should change from Alvan Clark to Alvan Graham Clark (or similar) and the link be pointed to that son's page.
I'll double check dates and change it in a few days if no one shouts otherwise.
Gordon Panther (not logged in on this computer and not got signon to hand). 92.14.11.71 (talk) 00:36, 2 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Photo is presumably of the son, not the father? 

message: Under Notable staff it says "Dr. Amanda Bauer was the first astronomer hired by the Yerkes Future Foundation, which took over the observatory, its restoration and operation from the University of Chicago in 2020." I think that event should be included in the timeline under Current status, preferably with a citation.--agr (talk) 15:37, 24 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Current status