which meant the observatory attracted military funding from the Office of Naval Research and the U.S. Air Force (as Space Force had not been created back then.) The Air Force-managed telescope was ...

On a wooded knoll on private property in Lake Angelus — less than a mile from the Great Lakes ... housing a 10.5-inch equatorial telescope. On July 1, 1930, the observatory officially began ...

But it’s the historic telescopes, once among the largest in the country, that are the true gems. John Ventre, the observatory historian, led my family on a tour of the facility and a peek ...