• Question: What is the furthest telescope you've looked in before

    Asked by anon-246050 to Sam, Samantha, Lori-Ann, Liam, David on 19 Mar 2020.
    • Photo: Samantha Faircloth

      Samantha Faircloth answered on 19 Mar 2020:

      Hello Pythonz! I’ve looked in telescopes that can show me some of the planets in our Solar System like Mercury, Mars and of course, the object I study, the Moon. The craters on the Moon look fantastic down a telescope! : -)

    • Photo: Lori-Ann Foley

      Lori-Ann Foley answered on 19 Mar 2020:

      I haven’t had a chance to look in many big telescopes but I have me own one at home which lets me look at the moon super close up and the other planets are fairly close up too. I can see galaxies and nebula which can be amazing to. But even just going out to see what stars I can see with just my eyes is satisfying.

    • Photo: Sam Frampton

      Sam Frampton answered on 19 Mar 2020:

      I’ve used a telescope that was looking at many galaxies at once! The telescope was about 30m wide!

    • Photo: David Sobral

      David Sobral answered on 19 Mar 2020:

      The largest telescope I have used is the largest in the world, the Gran Telescope Canarias (GTC) and also Keck in Hawaii. I have discovered galaxies that are almost 30000000000000000000000 km away from us, including the record for the brightest distant galaxy!

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