page_title: Space Place at Carter Observatory
section_title: The Ruth Crisp Telescope
hierarchical_section_title: Space Place at Carter Observatory / Facilities / The Ruth Crisp Telescope
caption_attribution_description: English: Photo of the Ruth Crisp telescope at Carter Observatory, Wellington, New Zealand. Taken by Paul Moss specifically for the Ruth Crisp article in Wikipedia.
context_page_description: Space Place at Carter Observatory is housed in a historic astronomical observatory located at the top of the Wellington Botanic Garden in Wellington, New Zealand.
  The site was originally home to the Wellington City Observatory, established in 1924. This was demolished and replaced by the Carter Observatory, which officially opened on 20 December 1941. Space Place is now managed by Museums Wellington, which is part of Experience Wellington, and is a public museum and planetarium with a focus on space and New Zealand astronomy. The Observatory houses a digital planetarium as well as an historic 9​³⁄₄-inch Cooke refractor telescope, through which evening visitors can observe a variety of Solar System and deep-sky objects.
context_section_description: The Ruth Crisp telescope, a 16-inch Cassegrain reflector manufactured by Boller and Chivens, was donated to the Observatory in 1968 by New Zealand writer and philanthropist Ruth Crisp. Once used for research at the Carter Observatory's outstation at Black Birch in the South Island, this telescope was later moved to the main premises in Wellington.
  A grant from Pub Charity allowed improvements to the installation in December 2005: the Observatory had the dome motorised, and the telescope’s primary and secondary mirrors were re-aluminised.
caption: The Ruth Crisp telescope
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