THE STELLAFANE VIRTUAL MUSEUM
Welcome to the Virtual Museum operated by the Springfield Telescope Makers. All of the photos included here are of items that can be found in our real museum, opened in 1975, located in three underground rooms at the Hartness House Inn in Springfield, Vermont. You can plan a visit to the museum during the Stellafane convention (Friday 5pm to 8pm and Sunday 9am to noon). Admission is free! We are interested in considering new items regarding amateur telescope making to be added to the museum and ?subject=Virtual Museum">welcome inqiries.
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NOTE ON FILE SIZES
Note that in addition to the small images that are displayed on this page you can also download larger versions of each. The medium size images are typically a few dozen kilobytes and the large images are typically a few hundred kilobytes. Enjoy!
COPYRIGHT NOTICE
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STELLAFANE VIRTUAL MUSEUM
| /images/history/virtual_museum/museum032_small.jpg" height="200" width="290" alt="Virtual Museum Image" hspace="10"> | Grounded iceberg, pastel, 1941, by R. W. Porter. Gift from Richard H. Pembroke. Click to download /images/history/virtual_museum/museum032_medium.jpg">medium size image or /images/history/virtual_museum/museum032_large.jpg">large size image. |
| /images/history/virtual_museum/museum033_small.jpg" height="200" width="130" alt="Virtual Museum Image" hspace="10"> | Garden Telescope, number 31. Click to download /images/history/virtual_museum/museum033_medium.jpg">medium size image or /images/history/virtual_museum/museum033_large.jpg">large size image. |
| /images/history/virtual_museum/museum034_small.jpg" height="200" width="270" alt="Virtual Museum Image" hspace="10"> | Mirror making kit sold by John M. Pierce, showing the mirror and tool blanks, abrasives in original tin cans, and pitch in original cardboard container. Click to download /images/history/virtual_museum/museum034_medium.jpg">medium size image or /images/history/virtual_museum/museum034_large.jpg">large size image. |
| /images/history/virtual_museum/museum035_small.jpg" height="200" width="270" alt="Virtual Museum Image" hspace="10"> | Telescope making castings sold by John M. Pierce, showing a tube cradle, mirror cell rings, eyepiece housings, focus tube holders, etc. Click to download /images/history/virtual_museum/museum035_medium.jpg">medium size image or /images/history/virtual_museum/museum035_large.jpg">large size image. |
| /images/history/virtual_museum/museum036_small.jpg" height="200" width="280" alt="Virtual Museum Image" hspace="10"> | Metal components to the Hale spectrohelioscope. Click to download /images/history/virtual_museum/museum036_medium.jpg">medium size image or /images/history/virtual_museum/museum036_large.jpg">large size image. |
| /images/history/virtual_museum/museum037_small.jpg" height="200" width="160" alt="Virtual Museum Image" hspace="10"> | Front cover to the bulletin, “The New Hale Spectrohelioscope, Built and sold by Howell & Sherburne Co., Pasadena, California.” Click to download /images/history/virtual_museum/museum037_medium.jpg">medium size image or /images/history/virtual_museum/museum037_large.jpg">large size image. |
| /images/history/virtual_museum/museum038_small.jpg" height="200" width="350" alt="Virtual Museum Image" hspace="10"> | Caption to the Hale spectrohelioscope. “These parts belong to the spectrohelioscope invented by Dr. George E. Hale for observing the entire surface of the sun at one time and at any desired wavelength (color). Russell W. Porter had them shipped to the Springfield Telescope Makers after he went to California to work for Hale on the design of the 200-nch telescope. Unfortunately, before the parts could be assembled into a final instrument, the diffraction grating used to separate the wavelengths was destroyed in a fire. At that time it was extremely costly to produce diffraction gratings and this one was never replaced, which put an end to the spectrohelioscope at Stellafane. Click to download /images/history/virtual_museum/museum038_medium.jpg">medium size image or /images/history/virtual_museum/museum038_large.jpg">large size image. |
| /images/history/virtual_museum/museum039_small.jpg" height="200" width="230" alt="Virtual Museum Image" hspace="10"> | Perspective and plan drawing of solar telescope and spectrohelioscope, by R. W. Porter, no date. Click to download /images/history/virtual_museum/museum039_medium.jpg">medium size image or /images/history/virtual_museum/museum039_large.jpg">large size image. |
| /images/history/virtual_museum/museum040_small.jpg" height="200" width="270" alt="Virtual Museum Image" hspace="10"> | Sundial by James Hartness. Click to download /images/history/virtual_museum/museum040_medium.jpg">medium size image or /images/history/virtual_museum/museum040_large.jpg">large size image. |
| /images/history/virtual_museum/museum041_small.jpg" height="200" width="270" alt="Virtual Museum Image" hspace="10"> | Detail of the calender wheel on the Hartness sundial. Click to download /images/history/virtual_museum/museum041_medium.jpg">medium size image or /images/history/virtual_museum/museum041_large.jpg">large size image. |
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