The is an
Astronomical Observatory owned and operated by
University Of Toronto and hosts the largest optical
Telescope in
Canada . The observatory is located in the
Town Of Richmond Hill , 25 km north of the
City Of Toronto , and is part of the University of Toronto.
The observatory was founded in
1935 and was a present to the university by Jessie Donalda Dunlap as a memorial for her husband David Alexander Dunlap. At the time of its construction, the observatory's first telescope was the world's second largest.
Astronomer C. T. (Tom) Bolton published the first observational demonstration of
Black Hole s – made using the observatory facilities – and is a University of Toronto professor of astronomy and
Astrophysics .
The observatory has three
Cassegrain Telescopes , a 1.88 metre (talked about above), 0.6 metre, and a 0.5 metre.
- [http://www.astro.utoronto.ca/DDO/ David Dunlap Observatory (DDO), University of Toronto]
