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Alan Young moved his 0.57-m f/4.73 reflector from Hemingford Abbots (MPC
code 489) in Cambridgeshire to Burwash, East Sussex in 1983 and operated
it until his death in 1990 (obituary).
The dome at Burwash was still in place as late as 2013 in GoogleEarth
images but was gone by 2014. The telescope and equatorial mount has now been moved to a
purpose-built observatory building at Cranbrook School in Kent, managed
and operated by CADSAS
(Cranbrook and District Science and Astronomy Society) and has been
completely refurbished and put back into operation, an update is given
here.
This image from GoogleEarth (imagery date 9 Jul 2013) provides the
following coordinates for Burwash Observatory:
Longitude 000° 22' 27.93" W, latitude 50° 59' 44.14" N, height
70 m, 3 m (height of instrument)
and an undated picture of the observatory building from the ground at
Burwash was previously available from the CADAS web site and reproduced here:
To estimate the height of the telescope above ground level, assuming the white doors are 6 ft 6 in high, the flat roof would then be
8 ft 8 in (2.7 m) from the ground and the height of the telescope about
3 m.
More contemporary information about the telescope is available from CADAS
here 'Alan
Young Telescope'. |
