Inside the Pope's Observatory

[Paxo]

Not trying to initiate a religion/science debate, just makes an interesting watch:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7808878.stm

Steve..

[david_r]

Interesting. The chap they interviewed regarding the meteors is the author of Left Turn at Orion.

[geoff_k]

Think what Galileo would have done with that scope. At least they would have let him use it nowadays.

Interesting website link here: http://vaticanobservatory.org/Instr.html

[blackgerby]

I'd love to have that on my roof! I wonder what the skies are like round there.

[TheThing]

Interesting. The chap they interviewed regarding the meteors is the author of Left Turn at Orion.

An interesting chap. It was a little while after I bought the book that I discovered exactly who he was and the role he plays.

The observatory is also mentioned in Dan Brown's 'The Da Vinci Code', where it is thought of as a waste of the church's time and money!

Astronomy, a waste of money? Never!

[Kai]

I'd love to have that on my roof! I wonder what the skies are like round there.

Im sure that if they are cloudy then all they have to do is have a word with the "boss upstairs" and they suddenly clear