Refracting Telescope
For our regular feature βShow Us Your Instrumentβ, Inside Science visits a refracting telescope at The Royal Observatory in Greenwich.
Public Astronomer Dr Marek Kukula explains how this giant Victorian instrument has been used to study the physics of double stars. However, a fire during World War II destroyed its papier-mΓ’chΓ© dome, which has now been replaced with fibre glass.
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