Cadets getting a new window on the universe/ Computerized telescope will track moving objects From: Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph | Date: November 20, 1989| Author: | Copyright (null) Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

A new telescope at the Air Force Academy will give cadets a second eye on the sky beginning this week.

The 16-inch-diameter telescope, which is fully computerized, can track orbiting satellites, according to Lt. Col. Raymond Bloomer, the academy's chief astronomer and deputy head of the physics department.

That's something the academy's larger, manually operated telescope cannot do.

"Conventional telescopes are made to track stars, which are slow moving," Bloomer said. "With the speed of the computer, this should work."

Having a computerized telescope means more realistic exercises ...