#telescopes

[jup1t3rsr1ngs]

My latest of M42, The Orion Nebula

1000x20s frames shot on an OSC sensor in a bortle 9 zone, post processed in siril

[nobrashfestivity]

Einstein Observatory, remainders unmarked

[spaceexp]

Extremely Large Telescope currently being built on top of a mountain in the middle of Chile’s remote Atacama Desert, more than 150–kilometres away from the nearest city.

[styllwaters]

Barrat is a disgruntled technician working at The Beacon. He's easy to miss and is seen by higher-ups as more of a tripping hazard than a valuable employee. Recently fired for stumbling across something he shouldn't have.

Vivere 44's deuteragonist who forms a rocky alliance with Vreaz in pursuit of answers.

[stearleartwork]

Pixel space art!

[blondebrainpowered]

Sir Isaac Newton's reflective telescope, ca. 1671

*The telescope in the picture is a replica of the original Newtonian (though, in this case, it's a replica made by Sir Isaac Newton himself). The whereabouts of the first one he built is unknown.

The late, great Dave Trott made a couple of videos about replicas of the original Newtonian telescope:

Photo credit: Royal Society collections

[glitchcosmos]

Nobeyama observatory and flowers by anthodomi on flickr