Loomis Observatory (also known as the Elias Loomis Observatory ) is the second oldest observatory in the United States , located in Hudson , Ohio . Construction was completed in 1838. It is on the campus of Western Reserve Academy , a college preparatory school. When the observatory was constructed the school was Western Reserve College, which later relocated to Cleveland and is now known as Case Western Reserve University .
5-652: The Loomis Observatory is the oldest observatory in the United States still sitting in its original location. The oldest American observatory, the Hopkins Observatory at Williams College , also completed in 1838, has been relocated twice in its history. Under the influence and design of Professor Elias Loomis , who purchased the necessary instruments in England after studying in Europe, the observatory
10-548: A 7" refracting telescope, which was restored for the observatory's sesquicentennial. In 1963 the planetarium projector was installed and named in memory of Willis Milham, professor of astronomy 1901-1942. The observatory's side rooms have become the Mehlin Museum of Astronomy in memory of Theodore Mehlin, professor of astronomy 1942-1971. 42°42′42″N 73°12′06″W / 42.71167°N 73.20167°W / 42.71167; -73.20167 This article about
15-418: The observatory 1836-1838 in the center of the quad. It was moved once in 1908 and again to its present location in 1961, where it now serves as a planetarium. Today's building still contains the original transit, regulator with mercury-compensated pendulum, and rule. The museum's second director, Truman Henry Safford , was a calculating prodigy. In 1852 the firm of Alvan Clark ( Cambridge, Massachusetts ) built
20-546: The observatory in 1908, and it was again restored in 1963. Hopkins Observatory Hopkins Observatory is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by Williams College in Williamstown , Massachusetts (USA). Constructed in 1838 by Albert Hopkins, the college claims that it is the oldest observatory in the United States. The observatory dates to 1834 when Prof. Albert Hopkins traveled to England to obtain astronomical equipment. His students constructed
25-432: Was built by architect Simeon Porter. The original Troughton & Simms equatorial telescope and Robert Molyneux-built astronomical clock remain in the observatory dating to 1837. An inscription on the historic marker reads: " Elias Loomis and Charles Augustus Young worked in this Observatory, built in 1838, the third to be erected in the United States, the second oldest standing (1926)." James Ellsworth restored
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