Chris Graney, an astronomer with the Vatican Observatory, and Tim Tomes, archivist for the archdiocese, discussed the recently restored Bouchet telescope. The 150-year-old telescope belonged to Monsignor Michael Bouchet, an inventor and vicar general for the then-Diocese of Louisville in the 1870s.

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