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Watch the short video,
JackBoth magnificent and profoundly sad.
They need to be brought back into productive use. I would love to use a 24″, any 24″, let alone one with such an illustrative history.
Hi Jack/ALL,
I don’t seem to be able to open the video you post about. However I assume it is the same as the 24 inch Espin Telescope that I have posted bwout on this forum and on the BAA forum at this link:
https://britastro.org/forums/search/espin+telescope
Here you can read along thread concerning the campaign to save the telescope.
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Paul,
This is not a new story and people need to be careful when they class themselves as urban explorers as they are trespassing.
It used to be Newcastle University observatory site. The land at Close house was sold and turned into a hotel. The site was left to deteriorate and despite numerous approaches to the hotel and Newcastle University no response from them was ever received.
Newcastle Astro along with Sunderland and Durham and John Nichol sadly gave up trying to save this historically important site.
Heartbreaking to see what has become of it.
Regards,
JackMr Jack, it cannot be, I cannot believe such a ‘discovery’. Basically, almost, domes and telescope only need painting and lubrication. Now that’s a real treasure, other than the one in Louis Stevenson’s novel. I say this because in my association (the former Associazione Astrofili Abruzzesi) things went a little differently: we had built a Newtonian D300 mm F1500 mm. A beautiful telescope equipped with a D100 mm apo astrograph dedicated to the search for asteroids, in collaboration with the state observatory of Collurania (in the town of Teramo).
The instrument was placed on an old medieval tower, Torre De Sterlich, 10 km from our city Pescara in Central Italy. The 20-metre high tower and telescope are in the attached pictures.
One evening, we went there for an observation and found that the telescope had been catapulted from the top of the tower with all its accessories. Astrograph, push-button motors, eyepieces, blackboard and everything else lay on the ground at the foot of the tower. Everything had been destroyed by unknown vandals.
Thus ended the Association.
Any comments are yours.
In any case, congratulations on the preservation of things.Translated with DeepL.com (free version)
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Hi Jack and all,
I am part of a small group still working to rescue the 24-inch telescope which includes David Sinden’s daughter Caroline. If you have not already signed the petition please do so, it can be found here:
Regards, John Nichol
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