The Jodrell Bank Observatory is a British observatory that hosts a number of Radio Telescopes and is part of the Jodrell Bank centre for astrophysics at the university of Manchester. The observatory was established in 1945 by Sir Bernard Lovell, a radio astronomer at the Manchester University who wanted to investigate cosmic rays after his work on radar during the second world war. The main telescope at the observatory is the Lovell Telescope, which is the third largest steerable radio telescope in the world. There are three other active telescopes at the observatory. The Jodrell Bank Observatory is located in the civil parish of Lower Withington, near Goostrey and Holmes Chapel, Cheshire, North West England.
The Lovell Telescope.
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One of the other three telescopes.
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The Cats Eye Nebula.
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Sombrero Galaxy.
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The Trifid Nebula.
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War and Peace Nebula.
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OK. These are downright neat! I have always been fascinated with this type of telescope as to how they work. Certainly someone more clever than I designed them. And, I was actually an amateur astronomer back when I was a kid. I actually got to look through the Mount Locke Observatory telescope when I was around 12. That one is down in the Davis Mountains in southwest Texas. Good photos work, my friend!
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