Astronomical Calendar: 2016 December

In a rare color photograph from 75 years ago, Navy sailors save another sailor who jumped overboard after a Japanese torpedo hit the USS West Virginia, which sank next to the USS Tennessee, during the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 1941 December 7. Just two and one-half weeks earlier, during the activities surrounding the dedication of a unique 10-inch Siderostat-Type Refractor Telescope at Pittsburgh's original Buhl Planetarium and Institute of Popular Science, a new Buhl Planetarium gallery exhibit also opened with the-then intriguing title, "Can America Be Bombed?"
More on the Attack on Pearl Harbor:
Link >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Pearl_Harbor
More on the 10-inch Siderostat-Type Refractor Telescope at Pittsburgh's original Buhl Planetarium:
Link >>> http://spacewatchtower.blogspot.com/2016/11/75th-anniversary-americas-5th-public.html [Image Sources: Associated Press (photographer unknown), BuzzFeed.com ]

Astronomical Calendar for 2016 December: 
Link >>> http://buhlplanetarium4.tripod.com/astrocalendar/2016.html#dec

Source: Friends of the Zeiss.
             2016 December 1.


                                                               
        2016: 75th Year of Pittsburgh's Buhl Planetarium Observatory
     Link >>> http://spacewatchtower.blogspot.com/2016/11/75th-anniversary-americas-5th-public.html

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