Juan Carlos Muñoz on Nostr: The job of a telescope operator has certainly changed quite a bit in the last few ...
The job of a telescope operator has certainly changed quite a bit in the last few centuries 😅
I showed this slide in a talk I gave a few days ago about how and why we're building increasingly larger telescopes. This telescope was built by Johannes Hevelius in the XVII century. Its aperture was only a few cm wide, but its focal length was a whopping 46 m.
#astrodon #astronomy #history
I showed this slide in a talk I gave a few days ago about how and why we're building increasingly larger telescopes. This telescope was built by Johannes Hevelius in the XVII century. Its aperture was only a few cm wide, but its focal length was a whopping 46 m.
#astrodon #astronomy #history