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2026-07-28 21:08 UTC
My trip up the 76m diameter Lovell Telescope was in 2002 after a resurfacing. Here's us waiting for the lift to go up one of the towers. The two support towers were called green and red (that was the colour of the floors in them).
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@slowe@mastodon.me.uk 2026-07-28 21:11
The telescope was originally designed in the 1950s when nothing quite like it had been built - it was the largest fully steerable radio telescope in the world. It was designed by Charles Husband who was a bridge builder from Sheffield. So the structure has some elements of bridges to it.