The Astronomy Center of the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, after a half-year renovation and conservation, returned one of the most valuable and well-known telescopes in the world – a historic eight-inch astrograph by Henry Draper.

Students from the Laboratory of Metal Monuments Conservation at the Faculty of Fine Arts at Toruń’s university have restored the device to its original appearance. The astrograph is now being reassembled and it will be available from October. The costs of materials used for conservation were covered by the Foundation of Alexander Jabłoński. The Foundation will also finance the exhibition in the Draper’s telescope pavilion.

The astrograph served in the Harvard Observatory since 1891, in 1947 it went to the observatory in Torun Piwnice. Draper’s telescope has enormous value for astronomers – the observational material obtained with its help has been used to create the current spectral classification of stars.