Suttonhoo: One cold winter in Wisconsin a window cracked at the Yerkes Observatory so they replaced it with a glass plate dupe of a solar eclipse captured through the world's largest refraction telescope. No biggy
<eclipse window pic>
b1-66er: Looks great.
(the ornamentation visible out the other window is interesting.)
S: This place is absolutely brilliant -- y'all should consider a drive by on your next tren adventure
<Observatory through trees>
b1: That's a great shot too.
What takes you there?
S: Curiosity. The cat with the big schnoze is John D Rockefeller. Originally there was a wasp in the cartouche (replicated many times) to allude to how JD got stung bankrolling the construction of the University of Chicago. UofC officials got wise to the joke and had the wasps chiseled out
I like the phases of the moon best
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