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Above: Truman State University Senior Sam Carroll aligns the eyepiece of a telescope prior
to nightfall. Above right: Professor Vayujeet Gokhale, left, discusses Truman's own PlaneWave
scope with visitors during a public viewing event at the observatory. Below: Professor Robert
Patterson checks the settings of a 20-inch PlaneWave telescope at Missouri State University's
Baker Observatory. When not in use for public outreach, teachers and students use the
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Kendal Clark, associate professor of astronomy for CMU and steward of
the observatory, along with his student assistants and volunteers alternate
between checking the focus and alignment of the telescope and explaining what
is on the other side. These keepers of the night sky's wonders are all smiles
during these public events, but even their enthusiasm for the cosmos is someWLPHVHFOLSVHGE\WKDWVWDUVWUXFNÀUVWWLPHUDVDFKLOGRUFKLOGDWKHDUWVTXLQWV
and peeks through the eyepiece.
Volunteer Steve Bournemier remembers that feeling. He was 9 years old on
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the zenith of the space race and human interest in a new age of exploration, the
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been coming to the observatory since 1967. "To me, this was the Mount Everest
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Fifty years later and that kind of fervor remains high among professional and
amateur astronomers as well as newcomers. Advances in spacecraft technology
and robotic explorations of Mars and other celestial bodies have brought the
exciting discoveries that await in the night sky back into the public eye.
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during public viewing nights. "Sometimes we have lines going way down the
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and it's easy to see what drives such an interest. Their kaleidoscope of colors,
which are added by computer, show how clouds of gas and dust such as the
Veil or Bubble nebulas would appear if the viewer were only a few light years
away. Throw in the fact that the nebulas depicted are located thousands of light
years from Earth, and the telescope also allows visitors to take part in a sort
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rings or an up-close view of the cratered surface of the Moon, university professors and their students are peeking well beyond our solar system to study
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