<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/pre-go-live-resources/_migration/2026-08-21/westmont-news/new-telescope-brings-better-clarity-carroll-observatory.html" dsn="news"><pubDate>03/14/2005</pubDate><title>New Telescope Brings Better Clarity to Carroll Observatory</title><excerpt>After more than 50 years, Westmont will retire its 16-inch Newtonian telescope from Carroll Observatory and install a 24-inch F/8 Cassegrain with Ritchey-Chrétien optics. The new instrument features more than twice the light-gathering power of the old one and nearly twice the resolving power.</excerpt><author>Westmont</author><image>
            
            
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