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Hong Kong Telescope.

Submitted by Klaus on Fri, 2016-06-17 01:34

Text on Flickr: Ft Thomas Cooney SJ testing the Markree refractor after it was set up in Hong Kong. Again, it was used in the open as it had been at Markree. The Japanese bombed the telescope in 1941 taking it for an AA gun, Thankfully the OG was saved and presented to the Manila Observatory where it still resides. <Read more ...>