My posts on the Green Bank Radio Telescope has prompted me to wonder just what all this sounds like. As a ham radio operator, N8GMQ, my first thought was to listening rather than the radio astronomy images that we are familiar with like the ones found at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory’s Multimedia Gallery. The …
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300-Foot Telescope Collapse
At 9:43 p.m. EST on Tuesday the 15th of November 1988, the 300-foot telescope in Green Bank collapsed. The loss of the 300-Foot telescope resulted in the Green Bank Telescope Project. https://www.nrao.edu/whatisra/hist_300ft.shtml At 9:43 p.m. EST on Tuesday the 15th of November 1988, the 300-foot telescope in Green Bank collapsed. The collapse was due to …
