New London — An anonymous Connecticut College alum has donated $100,000 to the school so it can purchase a new telescope and make upgrades to its Olin Observatory. The 20-inch telescope has been ...

Called 3I/ATLAS, the comet is only the third of its kind known to astronomers, and it’s likely been heading our way for billions of years, carrying pristine material from another star system ...

In June, a 20-inch telescope was installed in an observation dome on the roof of Fronczak Hall, North Campus. The telescope operates as a transit telescope moving along only one axis with all-night, ...

A recent $100,000 anonymous donation from a school alum will allow the college in the coming weeks to replace its antiquated 20-inch telescope with a smaller, but state-of-the-art model.

Leah has since been joined by “Rachel,” a 20-inch refracting telescope commissioned in 1914, and “Nellie,” a 36-inch reflector telescope installed in 2003.

REVIEW: The Celestron Origin is the smartscope powerhouse we’ve been waiting for The Origin’s onboard processing produced images that look like views through a 20-inch telescope under a dark sky.

Yesterday, 20 years to the month after the unprecedented project was conceived, the $6,550,000 observatory was dedicated and the 200-inch mirror reflector was formally named the Hale Telescope.