EXPLORING SPACE VALITION GREAT HAPPENINGS AT THE U.S. AIR FORCE ACADEMY TELESCOPE TO BE LARGEST AVAILABLE FOR PUBLIC VIEWING IN COLORADO Scientists at the Air Force Academy said a $1.25 million project to install a telescope in the school's observatory should be complete by springtime. "Featuring a 1-meter primary mirror, the telescope is the largest in Colorado that will be available to the public," Della-Rose said. A camera with a 111-million pixel rate will be installed in the telescope. Each image it captures will contain almost a quarter of a gigabyte of data and be stored on cloud services. The Academy also plans to buy a high-resolution spectrograph by 2021. Contractors from the 10th Civil Engineer Squadron, and technicians from the Austrian telescope manufacturer completed the first stage of the project when they installed the housing for the 5,000-pound Ritchey- Chretien reflecting telescope in October. The telescope will be the 12th in the Falcon Telescope Network, which has telescopes installed across the states and in several Associate physics professor and Observatory Director Devin Della-Rose said the telescope system will support cadet and faculty research projects. countries. "We can remotely operate these telescopes *We'll use the telescope to study man-made, in real time from anywhere," said Academy Physics Professor Francis Chun. "We try to automate the systems so that the telescopes collect data and download the information to Earth-orbiting objects and deep-space natural phenomena such as planets orbiting other stars," he said. a central server so cadets can pull the data." The telescope should be fully functional by springtime and the images it captures can be shared with the general public at the Academy's Planetarium and STEM Center. To learn more about the impact cadets are having on our community and the U.S. Air Force, visit www.usafa.edu. This sponsored feature provided through a joint venture between: THE UNITED STATES AIR FORCE ACADEMY ENDOWMENT THE COLORADO THIRTY GROUP EXPLORING SPACE VALITION GREAT HAPPENINGS AT THE U.S. AIR FORCE ACADEMY TELESCOPE TO BE LARGEST AVAILABLE FOR PUBLIC VIEWING IN COLORADO Scientists at the Air Force Academy said a $1.25 million project to install a telescope in the school's observatory should be complete by springtime. "Featuring a 1-meter primary mirror, the telescope is the largest in Colorado that will be available to the public," Della-Rose said. A camera with a 111-million pixel rate will be installed in the telescope. Each image it captures will contain almost a quarter of a gigabyte of data and be stored on cloud services. The Academy also plans to buy a high-resolution spectrograph by 2021. Contractors from the 10th Civil Engineer Squadron, and technicians from the Austrian telescope manufacturer completed the first stage of the project when they installed the housing for the 5,000-pound Ritchey- Chretien reflecting telescope in October. The telescope will be the 12th in the Falcon Telescope Network, which has telescopes installed across the states and in several Associate physics professor and Observatory Director Devin Della-Rose said the telescope system will support cadet and faculty research projects. countries. "We can remotely operate these telescopes *We'll use the telescope to study man-made, in real time from anywhere," said Academy Physics Professor Francis Chun. "We try to automate the systems so that the telescopes collect data and download the information to Earth-orbiting objects and deep-space natural phenomena such as planets orbiting other stars," he said. a central server so cadets can pull the data." The telescope should be fully functional by springtime and the images it captures can be shared with the general public at the Academy's Planetarium and STEM Center. To learn more about the impact cadets are having on our community and the U.S. Air Force, visit www.usafa.edu. This sponsored feature provided through a joint venture between: THE UNITED STATES AIR FORCE ACADEMY ENDOWMENT THE COLORADO THIRTY GROUP