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31. I’ll be the first to admit that this is not a very impressive photo of the moon. However, I couldn’t resist taking the eyepiece off the 40” and holding my camera (with lens removed) up to the image plane and snapping a photo. So technically this is a hand held photo of the moon taken with a 60 foot focal length.
21, The moon light was passing through the dome slot and lighting up the 60 foot long white tube. The red arcs on the inside of the dome were coming from the safety lighting.
13B, Control Panel located on the 75 foot diameter floor that weighed 37.5 tons. The floor was actually an elevator to keep the astronomer close to the end of the scope no matter where it was pointed.
14, Before electronic setting circles were invented they use very large mechanical circles to tell where the telescope was pointed.
17, This 1960 shot show the older shutter/aperture arrangement in front of the objective lens.
10, 40" telescope with 60 foot focal length.
07, The Declination shaft is being attached to the Polar shaft. You can get a feel for the size of the parts when you see the work men on the mounting.
04 The mounting and tube for the 40” in November 1896.
22. You can see the three stars in Orion’s belt through the dome slot. Even though the moon was out Orion’s Nebula was still spectacular when looking through a 40” telescope. It was very easy to see all the companion stars to the four stars in the Trapezium.
31. I’ll be the first to admit that this is not a very impressive photo of the moon. However, I couldn’t resist taking the eyepiece off the 40” and holding my camera (with lens removed) up to the image plane and snapping a photo. So technically this is a hand held photo of the moon taken with a 60 foot focal length.
31. I’ll be the first to admit that this is not a very impressive photo of the moon. However, I couldn’t resist taking the eyepiece off the 40” and holding my camera (with lens removed) up to the image plane and snapping a photo. So technically this is a hand held photo of the moon taken with a 60 foot focal length.
31. I’ll be the first to admit that this is not a very impressive photo of the moon. However, I couldn’t resist taking the eyepiece off the 40” and holding my camera (with lens removed) up to the image plane and snapping a photo. So technically this is a hand held photo of the moon taken with a 60 foot focal length.
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