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Francis G. Pease

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fitted to the 100-inch (2,500 mm) telescope at Mt. Wilson to measure the angular diameter of the star
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He would later be involved in the design of the 200-inch (5,100 mm)
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used Pease's high quality photographs of the Moon to make its first
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astronomer
Yerkes Observatory
Wisconsin
George W. Ritchey
reflecting telescopes
Mount Wilson Observatory
interferometer
Gene Shoemaker
geologic map
Albert A. Michelson
Michelson stellar interferometer
Betelgeuse
Eddington
Hale Telescope
Mount Palomar Observatory
planetary nebula
globular cluster
Pease 1
Pease
Moon
History of astronomical interferometry
List of astronomical instrument makers
ISBN
9780691113258
Categories
1881 births
1938 deaths
American astronomers
Highland Park High School (Illinois) alumni

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