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Hall explained that the observatory’s telescope worked differently from ... When he was asked during the Civil War if his faith in the Union was misplaced, he replied with his memory of a ...
The sailor standing atop the turret is holding a telescope. A photo from July of 1862. On the deck of the USS Monitor, looking forward on the starboard side. The large dents in the gun turret's ...
A bloody civil war between the Southern Confederacy and ... wasn’t the best site for a telescope, and eventually the observatory would move.) On the night of Aug. 22, 1863, the observatory ...
The Nu Scorpii/Civil War connection doesn’t end with Mitchel ... and you’ll need at least a 4-inch telescope, ratcheted up to a 150x-plus magnifying power.
But the tide turned in the American Civil War not long after Jackson’s own ... in a study appearing in this month’s issue of Sky & Telescope magazine. They say that when the men of the 18th ...
The Civil War, an epic nine-episode series by the award-winning documentary filmmaker Ken Burns and produced in conjunction with WETA, Washington, D.C., first aired in September of 1990 to an ...