Piazzi’s transit telescope.

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10 November 2022 at 4:00 pm #613538
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On a trip to Sicily I got to look through the actual transit telescope at Palermo National Observatory that Piazzi used to discover dwarf planet Ceres on 1st Jan 1801. An experience I wont forget!
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