Transit Telescope by Bill Miller

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170119_WMM0151	17th January

Transit Telescope

Edinburgh

This telescope dates from 1831 and is still in its original position at the City Observatory, on Calton Hill, Edinburgh.
It is an 8.3ft Fraunhofer-Repsold transit telescope used for accurate timekeeping by observing the transit of stars.

Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark II
1/640s f/2.8 at 40.0mm iso200 full exif

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Don Mottershead		21-Jan-2019 18:02
Makes for a nice abstract.

Bryan Murahashi		18-Jan-2019 04:50
A very colorful scope.

globalgadabout		17-Jan-2019 20:24
solid impact and graphic strength...sounds a clever approach to time keeping too..

Helen Betts		17-Jan-2019 18:14
Such a striking capture of this old telescope.

Jim Coffman		17-Jan-2019 17:44
Wow, that is not only colorful, it is interesting!

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