Radiotelescope Effelsberg
This is a very special #wheredidingresstakeyoutoday story. At least for me. Usually I explore cool new places when we have an +Ingress operation like a big field. There was in fact a rather big field built right next to me. 8 MMU in the South of #Cologne and right next to this location. The #sitrep for operation „Breaking Bad Münstereifel" is here: https://plus.google.com/+DieterKummer/posts/M9awkWWVGXG .
But I didn‘t take part in that special one. It was only the reason for a stealth approach although every neutralized portal would have counted towards my #cassandraneutralizer badge. But henceforth I preferred to seize the opportunity to visit one of the biggest radioastromony telescopes of the world. For 29 years it was the biggest of all. So it is really HUGE. The dish of the @maxplanckgesellschaft of the #Radiotelescope #Effelsberg has a diameter of 100m.
Do you see the structures in the middle of the dish, the focus cabins? Their actual size is that of small houses. And it is very specialized. While our smartphones and DSLRs gain more and more pixels from generation to generation the astronomical sensor has a resolution of 1 pixel. But that’s enough to analyze the radio signals from outer space. They recently found through spectography water in a solar system millions of lightyears away.
But what‘s the role of Ingress in it? Well. When we recently exchanged keys for a similar field as mentioned before (Operation Just Cause) I met an +Ingress Enlightened agent who spends his free non-ingress as an operator of the big space behemoth. So I got an exklusive tour to the places where these deep space paparazzi gather the vast amount of data and control the movement of the 2k ton heavy movable part of the mirror. The wet dream of a science nerd 🤓 came true.
To process the many pictures I took will take a while but this xf-colored picture could be used out of the cam. It was taken with the #lumixgx80 with the #lumix25mm14 . But most pictures were taken with the #olympus8mm . It‘s a very special ultra wide focal length, but perfect for shots of structures like this. The pictures will show up on this timeline in the next days.
Ingress or any other game of +Niantic is unfortunately a bad idea at this place. The emitted radiation of your smartphone can interfere with the very sensitiv sensors. So you are required to keep it in flight mode. That‘s one small switch for an agent, but a giant leap for mankind.
But I didn‘t take part in that special one. It was only the reason for a stealth approach although every neutralized portal would have counted towards my #cassandraneutralizer badge. But henceforth I preferred to seize the opportunity to visit one of the biggest radioastromony telescopes of the world. For 29 years it was the biggest of all. So it is really HUGE. The dish of the @maxplanckgesellschaft of the #Radiotelescope #Effelsberg has a diameter of 100m.
Do you see the structures in the middle of the dish, the focus cabins? Their actual size is that of small houses. And it is very specialized. While our smartphones and DSLRs gain more and more pixels from generation to generation the astronomical sensor has a resolution of 1 pixel. But that’s enough to analyze the radio signals from outer space. They recently found through spectography water in a solar system millions of lightyears away.
But what‘s the role of Ingress in it? Well. When we recently exchanged keys for a similar field as mentioned before (Operation Just Cause) I met an +Ingress Enlightened agent who spends his free non-ingress as an operator of the big space behemoth. So I got an exklusive tour to the places where these deep space paparazzi gather the vast amount of data and control the movement of the 2k ton heavy movable part of the mirror. The wet dream of a science nerd 🤓 came true.
To process the many pictures I took will take a while but this xf-colored picture could be used out of the cam. It was taken with the #lumixgx80 with the #lumix25mm14 . But most pictures were taken with the #olympus8mm . It‘s a very special ultra wide focal length, but perfect for shots of structures like this. The pictures will show up on this timeline in the next days.
Ingress or any other game of +Niantic is unfortunately a bad idea at this place. The emitted radiation of your smartphone can interfere with the very sensitiv sensors. So you are required to keep it in flight mode. That‘s one small switch for an agent, but a giant leap for mankind.
