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It really is an amazing place. The array that detected pulsars now looks not dissimilar to an overgrown vineyard, and the hut where the wires from the antennae
by timthorn 9y ago
It really is an amazing place. The array that detected pulsars now looks not dissimilar to an overgrown vineyard, and the hut where the wires from the antennae were terminated still has plastic caps from the connectors scattered over the floor. The control room for one of the telescopes was left open on it's desk, with last observing entries in it from the date of my birth. Operating manuals and old component catalogues lie scattered around. One hurt was full of random matked exam papers.
It's not open to the public often, but if you get a chance to visit you'll see astronomy history frozen in time.