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Posted: 25 Sep 2014

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Lovell Telescope

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The 76m radio telescope at Jodrell Bank, Cheshire, celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2007. This is the third largest completely steerable dish in the world and weighs 3,500 tons.

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 Roland
Roland
impressing !
9 years ago.
 GrahamH
GrahamH club
Having been to the similarly sized antenna at Parkes, Australia, this photo doesn't give the scale.

www.ipernity.com/doc/grahamh/24299581
9 years ago.
tarboat club has replied to GrahamH club
The Jodrell Bank telescope is larger than the one at Parkes with a dish of 76.2m diameter.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jodrell_Bank_Observatory
9 years ago.
GrahamH club has replied to tarboat club
I'm not arguing about the exact sizes. What I meant was that it is a similar order of magnitude (compared with the 0.5m satellite tv and 2-5m comms dishes) and that the building around its support, due to its windows, gives a better sense of its 64 meterness than the 76m Jodrell Bank dish has in a paddock without a co-located familiar / known sized object / structure.
9 years ago.
tarboat club has replied to GrahamH club
I didn't think we were arguing, I was just giving a bit more information about the scale. I took on board your point about no point of reference for scale on my photo. :-)
9 years ago.

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