January 8, 1999

Case Western Puts a 36-Inch Telescope on Line for Public Use

By VINCENT KIERNAN

If you've been dying to photograph some galaxy or nebula, here's your chance: Astronomers at Case Western Reserve University are now letting members of the public use the Internet to take pictures through a medium-sized telescope, free.

The optical telescope, with a mirror 36 inches in diameter, is the largest such instrument ever made available to the public through the Internet. But the Case Western

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