Telescope at work

The Spacewatch 36 inch telescope scans the sky for asteroids in this timelapse. Images were taken approximately every 30 seconds throughout a night of observing. The Moon lights up the sky and dome for the first part of the night. The sequence was shot in portrait mode and was squashed vertically when uploaded here....

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Howto & Style

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• astronomy
• telescope
• spacewatch
• observing

[Chrisjr2007]

lollll...

[rowanofrin1]

Thanks a lot, now I am going to blow all my savings buying a giant telescope!

[Messier81Galaxy]

oh god, i wish i had one of those :'(

[jack4740]

Fuck that's one mighty telescope you got there!,did you get together with your mates and buy that thing?,because from what I know one of those beasts costs well over $15,000.Jesus even well known manufacturuers like Meade and Celestron don't do scopes that size.

[petrojak2]

Fantastic watching the sky get darker as the moon sets.

[bankeh]

quite a small spotting scope :-p... just kidding, im so jelouse

[FutureStyles]

that is so amazing..make me want to buy a telescop again!

[bloo2009]

oh my goodness,this is awesome

[mitercut]

Very nice, you have a great job, I'm jealous!