Wednesday, September 1st, 2010 at 3:21 am
A few nice Telescope images I found:
NASM 16 Inch Telescope Jupiter
Image by Mr. T in DC
There was an open house at the new National Air and Space Museum observatory Tuesday evening. With all the light pollution and clouds moving in, the target was easy-to-see Jupiter, and the 4 Galilean moons. The view through the big 16" telescope on loan from Harvard University was amazing. You can see Jupiter in the background. Hopefully, the observatory will become a permanent museum fixture, because it is a helluva lot more accessible than the ones at the Naval Observatory, behind heavy security by the VP’s mansion.
Griffith Telescope
Image by andorpro
A telescope at Griffith Observatory overlooks the city of Los Angeles.
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Monday, August 23rd, 2010 at 5:22 am
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Thursday, August 19th, 2010 at 4:21 pm
A few nice Telescope images I found:
NASM 8 Inch Telescope
Image by Mr. T in DC
There was an open house at the new National Air and Space Museum observatory Tuesday evening. With all the light pollution and clouds moving in, the target was easy-to-see Jupiter, and the 4 Galilean moons. In the foreground, people view Jupiter through a big 11 inch Schmidt-Cassegrain "Go To" telescope on a wheeled tracking mount.
Blogged:
matadortrips.com/guide-to-stargazing-in-the-southern-hemi…
The ‘One-Mile Telescope’ at the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory (MRAO)
Image by pintxomoruno
Completed in 1964, the One-Mile Telescope, was the first to use Earth-rotation aperture synthesis (described by Ryle as "super-synthesis") and the first to give radio maps with a resolution better than that of the human eye. The telescope was made up of three 120 ton dishes, each of which is 18 m in diameter. Two of the dishes are fixed, while the third can be moved along an 800 m long (half mile) rail track, at speeds of up to 6.4 km/h. There were 60 different stations along the track, which is straight to within 0.9 cm, and whose far end was raised by 5 cm to allow for the curvature of the Earth over its length.
Though still occasionally used, it is now essentially retired (one of the dishes is occasionally used for undergraduate projects or by amateur radio astronomers).
The construction of this telescope and development of the Earth-rotation aperture synthesis used when operating it contributed to Martin Ryle and Antony Hewish receiving the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1974.
(Info from Wikipedia)
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