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Getting to attend scientific conferences all over the world is a great side effect of pursuing a carreer in academia. These trips sometimes bring you to places you would not have been able to visit otherwise. How many of the observatories and telescopes I got to see along the way can you identify? Click the little arrows at the bottom of the images to reveal the answers.
Great Equatorial Telescope (Royal Observatory Greenwich)
Cerro Paranal
Zeiss 12 inch Refractor (Griffith Observatory)
Fraunhofer Refraktor (USM)
1m telescope of the CHARA array (Mount Wilson)
APEX (Chajnantor)
100 inch Hooker Telescope (Mount Wilson), once the biggest telescope in the world
Cerro Armazones
ALMA (Chajnantor)
Hooker telescope dome (Mount Wilson)
50cm telescope (Dr Remeis Sternwarte Bamberg)
CHARA delay lines (Mount Wilson)
Royal Observatory Greenwich
UT4 (VLT)
36inch (0.9m) telescope
(Royal Observatory Edinburgh)
MPIK Rooftop Telescope (Heidelberg)
Meudon Great Refractor
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