My Dad Discovered Pluto
An astronomer's life
My father worked for the Lowell
Observatory for the next 15 years. Along the way, he discovered many
new astronomical entities, including a nova, a comet, a supercluster
of galaxies, and more than a dozen asteroids. He also earned a
bachelor's degree on a scholarship in 1936 and a master's in
astronomy in 1939. This is my dad in about 1933 with two telescopes
he built. The long one is a 7" reflector he built for his Uncle Lee
in 1927, while the one he holds is the first so-called "rich-field
telescope" built in America. (RFT's have low power but offer wide
fields of view.)