Radio Optical Observatory ROT54 in Orgov, Armenia
An observatory with a 54-meter-wide radio telescope sits in the mountains of Armenia.#telescopes #abandonedobservatories #abandoned #observatories #section-Atlas
Radio Optical Observatory ROT54
LOOK!
These odd plots represent the first data from the SKA-low telescope working as an interferometer.
Data comes from two stations (each with 256 antennas) where the signal is correlated. That little kink is the radio galaxy Centaurus A.
SKA is starting to come online!
SKA-low features these odd-looking antennas that resemble Christmas trees. 256 of them sit in a ‘station’ which acts as a single unit. Once construction is complete (end of decade) there will be 512 stations separated by distance creating a large virtual telescope.
SKA-low is the Australian side of the project and will feature over 131,000 antennas to cover the low-frequency bands.
This will complement SKA-mid, located in South Africa which will have an interferometer made of dish antennas and cove a huge bandwidth up to 15 GHz.
SKAO
_The Evening Post_, 27 August 1924:
“EPOCH MARKING”
THE CITY TELESCOPE
OBSERVATORY AT KELBURN
THE OPENING CEREMONY
The City Council’s nine-inch astronomical telescope, which has been installed in a temporary building in the grounds of the Observatory at #Kelburn, was officially opened yesterday afternoon by the Mayor, Mr. R. A. Wright, M.P. Interesting addresses were delivered on the occasion.
The Mayor said he was very pleased to see so many citizens assembled at the opening of the observatory. Wellington was the first municipality in the Dominion that had extended its activities to the realm of astronomical science, in the purchase and setting up of a telescope.…
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Councillor W. H. Bennett expressed the opinion that the event they were taking part in that day was a sign of the progress of the city—a milestone in Wellington’s journey to becoming one of the chief cities of the Southern Hemisphere.
The Mayor then formally declared the observatory open, and the visitors spent some time in inspecting the new city telescope.
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19240827.2.118
#OnThisDay #OTD #PapersPast #Telescopes #Observatories #NewZealand
_The Evening Post_, 26 August 1924:
VIEWS OF MARS
SIGHTSEERS AT ROSLYN
AIR IN POOR CONDITION
(BY TELEGRAPH.—SPECIAL TO THE POST.)
DUNEDIN, This Day.
Fully 200 persons went to #Roslyn Observatory on Saturday evening in the hope of viewing #Mars through the 12in telescope of the Otago Institute. The sky was quite clear, but a wavy current in the atmosphere made visibility poor. Nevertheless, the Roslyn instrument enabled visitors to see the glint of the south polar snowcap and shaded markings. “We have seen no traces of straight lines, corresponding to the so-called canals,” states a local authority, “but it was scarcely to be expected that we should see them under the conditions of our observation. The observations of these canals are erratic. In some cases small telescopes have been more successful than larger ones. It is difficult to say what are the conditions under which the canals can be best seen. Our conditions cannot be compared, for example, to the conditions in Arizona, but that is no fault of the telescope. The fact that we are not seeing the canals is no argument that they do not exist.”
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19240826.2.61
#OnThisDay #OTD #PapersPast #MartianCanals #Observatories #Dunedin #NewZealand
Bruneau Dunes in Mountain Home, Idaho
This Idaho state park boasts the tallest single-structured sand dune in North America.#stateparks #observatories #telescopes #deserts #dunes #section-Atlas
Bruneau Dunes
Yale-Columbia 26 inch refracting telescope, Mt. Stromlo Observatory, Canberra, ACT, 2000 #Observatories #Telescopes
Remains of the Yale-Columbia 26 inch refracting telescope, Mt. Stromlo Observatory, Canberra, ACT, 2022 #Observatories #Ruins
Closure threatened Mills Observatory secures five-figure funding - a hefty donation from my husband's company, a space technology research company spun off from the University of Dundee. https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/dundee/5017390/mills-observatory-secures-funding/ #Dundee #Tayside #Space #Scotland #Astronomy #MillsObservatory #PublicScience #Outreach #Observatories #Science #STARDundee #DundeeUniversity #DundeeUni
Cointe Observatory in Liège, Belgium
This Belgian observatory bears a striking resemblance to Futurama's Planet Express building.#abandoned #popculture #astronomy #observatories #section-Atlas
Cointe Observatory