telescope
64 photos and 36 illustrations tagged telescope, from 15 members of Flickr Commons.
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- North East Museums
- British Library
- National Library of Medicine
- Smithsonian Institution
- National Library of Ireland on The Commons
- State Library of Queensland
- NASA on The Commons
- The Library of Congress
- George Eastman Museum
- SDASM Archives
- Bergen Public Library Norway
- The Field Museum Library
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Recent uploads
The last upload was August 2025.
Spitzer Space Telescope Launch from NASA on The Commons uploaded August 2025
Launch of Fermi Telescope from NASA on The Commons uploaded June 2025
Launch of the James Webb Space Telescope from NASA on The Commons uploaded December 2024
GLAST Spacecraft Launch from NASA on The Commons uploaded June 2023
Telescope with a basket to catch the stars? from National Library of Ireland on The Commons uploaded April 2023
Early mobile phones but no Social Media from National Library of Ireland on The Commons uploaded March 2023
Hubble Views a Cosmic Cloud from NASA on The Commons uploaded December 2022
Station Airy from National Library of Medicine uploaded September 2022
Dr W. E. McFarlane, medical doctor and astronomer from State Library of Queensland uploaded July 2020
Night sky viewing for members of the Astronomical Society of Queensland from State Library of Queensland uploaded July 2020
Irvinebank Observatory ca. 1910 from State Library of Queensland uploaded July 2020
Experiments at Wickham Terrace Observatory from State Library of Queensland uploaded July 2020
Home made telescope mounted on a drum from State Library of Queensland uploaded July 2020
Setting up a telescope in preparation for an eclipse, Stanthorpe, 1922 from State Library of Queensland uploaded July 2020
Home made telescope from State Library of Queensland uploaded July 2020
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Home made telescope mounted on a drum
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Vesna Verencevic said:
Fascinating staff.
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Vesna Verencevic said:
"For it is true that astronomy, from a popular standpoint, is handicapped by the inability of the average workman to own an expensive astronomical telescope. It is also true that if an amateur starts out to build a telescope just for fun he will find, before his labors are over, that he has become seriously interested in the wonderful mechanism of our universe. And finally, there is understandably the stimulus of being able to unlock the mysteries of the heavens by a tool fashioned by one's own hand." Russell W. Porter Founder of Stellafane, March 1923 Source: stellafane.org/tm/atm/index.html