![David Conrad](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w92/3w7ZEmlk42anhEZgKvuNZmFFJba.jpg)
This film tells the surprising story of how the Allegheny Observatory has been a world leader in the study of the stars since the 1860s. Self-educated, and often facing unrelenting hardships, the people associated with the Allegheny Observatory defied the odds to make enormous contributions to the founding of astrophysics and early aviation.