Great Heroes and Discoveries of Astronomy

Designing and Building the Modern Telescope

Documentary

S1, E2: George Ellery Hale, the father of the modern telescope; the engineering science behind telescopes; how Hale raises funds for a massive 200-inch telescope that goes on to hold a world record; plans to build more ELTs, or Extremely Large Telescopes.

2022 · 25m

Information

Released
2022
Run Time
25 min
Rated
PG

Languages

Original Audio
English
Audio

English (AAC), English (United States)

Subtitles

English (CC)

Accessibility

Closed captions refer to subtitles in available languages with the addition of relevant non-dialogue information.