Bangor High unveils telescope at 'star party' Donor aims to share his passion

From: Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME | Date: August 29, 2003| Author: RUTH-ELLEN COHEN; OF THE NEWS STAFF | Copyright information

BANGOR - Searching the night sky with his telescope this week, Simon Wesley quickly found what he was looking for.

"Number seven!" the Bangor High School physics teacher called out, delighted to have found Uranus, the solar system's seventh planet.

Wesley hopes to impart his passion for astronomy to students this fall when he shares the powerful 8-foot-long telescope he and his father made more than 25 years ago.

Mounted on a steel post in the high school's recently built ...