The Moon setting within in the Lovell telescope. http://www.jb.man.ac.uk/webcam/  #lovelltelescopewebcam #jodrellbank

One of my favourite stories is that of the Lovell telescope and a fax machine (yep, me neither) intercepting Luna 9 to grab a cheeky pic of the Moon’s surface. More detail here https://www.jodrellbank.net/the-luna-9-space-hack-4th-feb-1966/

Ironically, that webcam shot of the Moon won’t be much worse than if the Lovell had taken it. Lots of people ask to ‘look through the telescope’. Can’t do that, I’m afraid with radio waves not being visible and all...but if you could it’d be potato quality for making images.

It’s great for many other things though, like discovering pulsars...and they’re way more interesting than the Moon. Genuinely the craziest things aside from black holes. Here’s a pretty cool video explaining what they are

And here’s a photo of when I was lucky enough to meet the person that discovered them, Dame Jocelyn Bell-Burnell. She’s a joy and an absolute legend.

I can’t remember where I was going with this thread - just spilling a little bit of my heart out because I miss that place so much. #jodrellbank