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Dr. Arnold M. Heiser, Professor of Astronomy, Emeritus, my faculty advisor, had lunch with Jean and me on Friday afternoon.
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Dr. Arnold M. Heiser, Professor of Astronomy, Emeritus, my faculty advisor, had lunch with Jean and me on Friday afternoon.

  • Dr. Arnold M. Heiser, Professor of Astronomy, Emeritus, my faculty advisor, had lunch with Jean and me on Friday afternoon.
  • Vanderbilt Dyer Observatory.
  • Dyer Observatory.
  • The Star Chamber at Dyer Observatory is a camera obscura sculpture that displays the sky on it's inner walls. It was closed for renovation.
  • The entrance to the Star Chamber.
  • Jean standing next to the Alvin Clark 6-inch refractor originaly used by E. E. Barnard. It was originally in an observatory formerly located on Rand Terrace, then moved to an observatory on top of Stevenson Science Center. That has been closed due to code changes and the scope is stored in the residence at Dyer Observatory until a dome can be built for it.
  • The mount of the Clark refractor at Dyer Observatory.
  • The Clark refractor with a reflection of Dyer Observatory.
  • The 24-inch Seyfert Telescope at Dyer Observatory.
  • Jean looks up at the 24-inch Seyfert Telescope at Dyer Observatory.
  • The 24-inch Seyfert Telescope at Dyer Observatory.
  • The 24-inch Seyfert Telescope at Dyer Observatory.
  • Ray looking through the 24-inch Seyfert Telescope at Dyer Observatory. (He never looked through it while an undergraduate, only used photography and spectroscopy with the primary mirror.)
  • The clock mechanism of the Seyfert Telescope.
  • The setting circles of the Seyfert Telescope.
  • The Seyfert Telescope.
  • The dome of the Seyfert Telescope as seen from the roof of the observatory.
  • The 12-inch reflector in a separate dome on the roof of Dyer Observatory.
  • The 12-inch reflector in a separate dome on the roof of Dyer Observatory.
  • Fencing club alumnus Carole Fernandez and Dr. Richard Stearns, faculty advisor, at the Friday evening get-together.
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