Moonwatch Telescope
date: label: date made
content: ca 1956
label: date made
content: around 1957
notes: label: Description
content: This small refracting telescope was made for Operation Moonwatch, a satellite tracking program organized in the 1950s. It has an aluminum tube, and an objective lens of 50 mm (about 2 inches) aperture. Inscriptions read “7580251” and “7638223.” It belonged to Everett Harrington Hurlburt, a professional astronomer and physicist.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Science & Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Evelyn Hurlburt
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1988.0636.03
label: accession number
content: 1988.0636
label: catalog number
content: 1988.0636.03
objectType: label: Object Name
content: telescope
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 76 mm x 60.3 mm x 34.3 mm; 3 in x 2 3/8 in x 1 3/8 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 13 1/4 in x 4 in x 2 7/16 in; 33.655 cm x 10.16 cm x 6.19125 cm