Cheshire
Ice Structures on the Road Side
06 December, 2010
by Ed O'Keeffe
in Cheshire
Yesterday I was driving through the back lanes of south Cheshire to visit my grandmother. Obviously I couldn’t drive past the above without stopping for a photograph. This is a wide angle photograph of yesterday’s icicle pattern close up. This (more…)
Jodrell Bank Telescopes
029 October, 2010
by Ed O'Keeffe
in Cheshire
Jodrell Bank Observatory is home to a small handful of telescopes, but the two most iconic are pictured above. On the right is the main Lovell Telescope, measuring just over 76 metres in diameter and completed in 1957. On the left is the (more…)
Lovell Telescope at Jodrell Bank Observatory
015 October, 2010
by Ed O'Keeffe
in Cheshire
The Lovell Telescope at Jodrell Bank Observatory was once the world’s largest steerable dish radio telescope when it was completed in 1957. This means that it can rotate through 360 degrees. Sadly it is now only the third largest. I have (more…)