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Please browse the gallery below for all the images, videos and audio related to Science, National and Civic Identity, and Tourism at the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory, Victoria, BC. Click on an item to see an enlarged image with description or to play the video/audio clip.
Newspaper article: Change estimate of the Milky Way. (New estimate of the Milky Way) The number of stars in the Milky Way is estimated at 170 billion suns at a scientific society meeting.
An image showing a small cardboard envelope with scientific writing on it. Below this is an image of a long horizontal line with short vertical lines on each side
Newspaper article: NORMAL SCHOOL AFFAIRS Students Visit Giant Telescope at Observatory; Literary Society Carries on Good Work.
Newspaper article: Scientists will visit Observatory. Delegation of prominent astronomers to hold session here.
Newspaper Clipping: OBSERVATORY ATTRACTS MANY. Great 72 - Inch Reflecting Telescope on Little Saanich Mountain Drawing Visitors From Afar.
Black and white portrait photograph of an older man wearing a jacket and tie
Newspaper article: Heavenly Bodies Subject of Lecture. Under auspices of Natural History Society Distinguished Astronomer Spoke
Front page of newspaper: Instrumental in Getting Huge Telescope for Victoria - The Site
A sepia colored photograph of a man holding a book sitting on a chair with a young boy sitting on his lap
A black and white photograph of a horse-drawn wagon carrying a very large piece of equipment up a dusty hillside road
A black and white image of a 15-inch refracting telescope. The telescope is attached to a mounting pier and is inside a domed building. There is an opening in the dome that allows the telescope to view the night sky.
A postcard from around 1905 showing a large stone building with a telescope dome on top of it
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