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Public invited to get a close look at world’s largest amateur telescope

Science • Dedication and star party to take place Saturday at the Stansbury Park Observatory Complex in celebration of the new Clements Telescope and Kolob Observatory.

| Courtesy Joe Bauman Mike Clements created what has been billed as the largest amateur telescope in the world. The Clements Telescope, which will be unveiled to the public with the Kolob Observatory at the Stansbury Park Observatory Complex on Saturday, July 22, 2017, employs a spy satellite telescope mirror 70 inches across that weighs 900 pounds. A dedication ceremony will take place at 4 p.m., and a star party, in which the public can try out the telescope, is scheduled to take place from dusk until midnight.