Clyde Tombaugh telescope

Posted by David Eicher
on Tuesday, June 29, 2010

by David J. Eicher

Clyde Tombaugh’s telescope is not the Pluto discovery camera (now on Mars Hill outside Flagstaff, Arizona); instead, it is Clyde’s personal telescope, which I had the pleasure of using with Clyde and David H. Levy in Las Cruces in the 1980s.

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