PalomarObservatory100HoursofAstronomy

This is so beautiful it made me shed a tear.

6 million dollars in 1928 was an enormous amount of money! I'm retroactively impressed that the government was willing to shell out that amount of money, through the Great Depression and WWII, for the pursuit of knowledge.

The project wasn't funded by the government. The $ 6 million was given by the Rockefeller Foundation to Caltech, a privately owned university.

Damn, so I guess I have to take back my admiration then. The Rockefeller Foundation did some amazing things for the time. I live in Spain and one of our longest standing centers for physical chemistry (Instituto Rocasolano) was built and equipped due to a grant by the Rockefeller foundation in 1926. They gave us a gift that has lasted for generations.

Still significant though.

thanks for the vid

it must be awsome looking up at the sky, on a daily basis, I would love doing that.. just to see the stars

Nice but around the world in 80 telescopes wasn't supposed to be a live cast? whatever five stars