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  2. Yerkes Observatory - Wikipedia

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    Yerkes Observatory (/ ˈ j ɜːr k iː z / ⓘ YUR-keez) is an astronomical observatory located in Williams Bay, Wisconsin, United States. The observatory was operated by the University of Chicago Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics [ 2 ] [ 3 ] from its founding in 1897 until 2018.

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    The Yerkes Observatory glass tree is (probably) the tallest in the world The first Yerkes Observatory glass tree event took place in 2022. By that point, Mack had done his research on tall trees ...

  4. List of largest optical refracting telescopes - Wikipedia

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    The Swedish 1-m Solar Telescope, with a lens diameter of 43 inches, is technically the largest, with 39 inches clear for the aperture.The second largest refracting telescope in the world is the Yerkes Observatory 40 inch (102 cm) refractor, used for astronomical and scientific observation for over a century.

  5. List of the largest optical telescopes in North America

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    Name/Observatory Location Lens diameter Focal length Built Comments Image Yerkes Observatory [6]: Williams Bay, Wisconsin, USA: 102 cm (40") 19.4 m (62′) 1897

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  7. Great refractor - Wikipedia

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    The 40-inch (1.02 m) Refractor, at Yerkes Observatory, the largest by famed lens makers Alvin & Clark. The era slowly came to end as large reflecting telescopes superseded the great refractors. In 1856–57, Carl August von Steinheil and Léon Foucault introduced a process of depositing a layer of silver on glass telescope mirrors. Silvered ...

  8. Yerkes - Wikipedia

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    Yerkes National Primate Research Center, one of eight national primate research centers funded by the National Institutes of Health, located in Atlanta, Georgia at Emory University; Yerkes–Dodson law, an empirical relationship between arousal and performance first noted by Robert M. Yerkes and John Dillingham Dodson; 990 Yerkes, main belt ...

  9. Yerkes 41-inch reflector - Wikipedia

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    Yerkes 41-inch reflector is a 40-inch aperture (101.6 cm) reflecting telescope at the Yerkes Observatory, that was completed in 1968. It is known as the 41 inch to avoid confusion with a 40 inch refractor at the observatory. Optically it is a Ritchey–Chrétien design, and the main mirror uses low