48-inch reflector, Victoria, Canada, 1961

The 1.2 metre McKellar Telescope at the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory in Victoria, British Columbia is named for Andre McKellar, the first to discover temperature of interstellar space and the presence organic molecules in interstellar space.

Ref: http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/Exhibitions/Cosmos/english/html/insideastronomy.html

More Information: https://www.astrosci.ca/DAO/dao48.html

More: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1958PASP...70..315M

More pictures here...http://www.pbase.com/johnbunyan/122_meter_spectrometer&page=all