Stars and the Milky Way Wheel over the McMath-Pierce Solar Telescope
Stars and the Milky Way rotate in this timelapse video captured at the McMath-Pierce Solar Telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory. At one point the largest solar telescope in the world, the McMath-Pierce Solar Telescope was decommissioned in 2017 and is being converted to the NOIRLab Windows on the Universe Center for Astronomy Outreach.
Credit:KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/R. Sparks
About the Video
Id: | 2025_04_03-McMath-Pierce-TLS-Rob-CC1 |
Release date: | May 21, 2025, 1:43 p.m. |
Duration: | 32 s |
Frame rate: | 29.97 |