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A large telescope requires a proportionately robust support structure to hold it. The Nicholas U.
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English: A large telescope requires a proportionately robust support structure to hold it. The Nicholas U. Mayall 4-meter Telescope, then the world's second-largest telescope by aperture at the time of its first light in 1973 and currently the largest telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO), certainly needed such a strong and stable structure. In this image taken in September 1968, the construction team is hard at work building the pier, the cylindrical concrete platform on which the telescope will stand. Encircling the pier are four red hexahedrons (out of the complete set of ten hexahedrons) that will support the weight of the telescope. |
Date | 12 October 2023, 14:20:00 (upload date) |
Source | Making the Nicholas U. Mayall 4-meter Telescope |
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Date and time of data generation | 14:20, 12 October 2023 |
JPEG file comment | Mayall 4m telescope pier with 4 hexaheadrons in place at Kitt Peak National Observatory, Sept. 1968. |
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File change date and time | 15:57, 6 October 2023 |
Date and time of digitizing | 09:28, 4 September 1998 |
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Keywords | Nicholas U. Mayall 4-meter Telescope |
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