Turner Farm Observatory

Amateur astronomer Jeffrey Kretsch tells how a local astronomical society turned a former Cold War missile control site into a thriving observatory park. For many years, residents of Great Falls, Virginia, drove by a government site marked by a tower sporting an observatory dome. What exactly was it for? Most people had to wait until the the mid-1990s, when the U.S. Department of Interior decided to make the land more […]

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