— Randy Attwood remembers visiting the David Dunlap Observatory for the first time as an eight-year-old boy and feeling awestruck as he looked up at the towering 1.88-metre reflector telescope. “When you walk in for the first time into the observatory, you see this massive telescope,” said Attwood. It’s an impressive thing to look at.”This summer the observatory, which contains the largest telescope in Canada, reopened to the public after 10 years. Once a month on Sundays, tours of the observatory and administration building provide more information about the site’s history. The telescope was the second largest in the world when the observatory officially opened in 1935.

Source: National Post August 20, 2018 15:45 UTC