On 30 June 04 at 2359 hours Pacific time, the TIE 24 inch Cole Telescope
at Mt. Wilson Observatory will be shut down for good. It will be
dismantled and placed into storage later this summer.
The TIE 14 inch telescope at Mt. Wilson will also be decomissioned and
moved to Australia.

In effect, TIE will cease all operations at Mt. Wilson Observatory

TIE will continue operations at the SOTIE facility at Las Campanas
Observatory, Chile and at the TIE/QIT observatory in Queensland, Australia.


Matthew Ota
Telescopes In Education Foundation

Jeff Schroeder wrote:

At approximatly 8:30 p.m. this Friday evening, the Spitz A3p projector at
the Mount San Antonio College Planetarium performed a final bow to the
audience and dimmed its stars there for the last time. Illuminated by red
and blue spots in a darkened theatre, it received a nice round of applause
for its 36 years of service. It will make way for a new Zeiss machine to be
installed in August, and we should reopen at the end of the year after our
first renovation. Plans are being formed to donate the old star projector so
that it can continue its work elsewhere.

Jeff Schroeder