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...massive telescopic camera specially designed for photographing meteors was shipped last week to Harvard's meteor station near Las Cruces, N.Mex. Weighing 5,000 Ibs. and mounted on an odd, horseshoe yoke, it looks like nothing else on earth. The outer lens, 18 in. in diameter, is as convex as a fishbowl. Inside are other lenses, one of them also bowl-shaped, and a 23-in. concave mirror. The film is placed between the lenses and sucked by a vacuum against the curved surface...
...meteor camera, the first ever designed exclusively for photographing meteors, can photograph 40 times the number of celestial bodies that present sky cameras can. It will be installed at the University's meteor station near Las Cruces, New Mexico...
...camera will become the main instrument in the Observatory's photographic meteor program started in 1936 and financed by the Navy since 1946. Fred L. Whipple, director of the College Observatory, is in charge of the project...
...crusty roll, whizzing like a meteor out of the unknown, shot past the Crumpet . . . and shattered itself against the wall. Noting that his guest had risen some eighteen inches into the air, the Crumpet begged him not to give the thing another thought. 'Just someone being civil,' he explained...
Five more of the Super-Schmidt Meteor Cameras will be built for research projects in New Mexica and Canada and for use by the U.S. Army...