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Stellafane
Stellafane (Latin for ''shrine to the stars'') is the name of the clubhouse built by the Springfield Telescope Makers club of Springfield, Vermont in the early 1920s, and has since come to refer to the club's land and buildings on the summit of Breezy Hill. It also refers to the Stellafane Convention, a gathering of amateur telescope makers and amateur astronomers (star party) held every year at that location. The property is a National Historic Landmark.
==The clubhouse==
The Springfield Telescope Makers grew out of a class on how to make telescopes that was started by Russell W. Porter in Springfield, Vermont in August 12, 1920. The members of this small group decided to form a club and held their first meeting on December 7, 1923. The Stellafane clubhouse was built in 1924 on a plot belonging to Porter on the summit of Breezy Hill outside of town. The original 20 x clubhouse (with an 11 x ell added in 1926) included a meeting room, a kitchen, a workshop, and bunkrooms on the second floor. The building incorporated a polar Cassegrain telescope, a transit telescope (no longer functional), a solar telescope, and a sundial, on the south wall. The name ''Stellafane'' (originally suggested by Porter at the club's January 1924 meeting) comes from the Latin words stella meaning ''star'', and fane meaning ''shrine'' which together means ''"Shrine to the Stars"''. Besides the historic Stellafane "pink clubhouse," the site includes Porter's uniquely designed Turret Telescope, a f/17 Newtonian reflector that was completed in 1931. This telescope consists of an equatorially rotated concrete dome with the telescope mounted on the outside, with the observer on the inside working in heated comfort. Stellafane is still the location where the Springfield Telescope Makers hold most of their meetings. The clubhouse and the observatory housing Porter's telescope were designated a National Historic Landmark in 1989, in recognition for the club's pioneering role in the popularization of astronomy and the amateur construction of telescopes.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=NHL nomination for Stellafane Observatory )〕
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