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Caption: The INT
building from the Observatory access road.
Credit: RGO.
Date: June 1983.
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Caption: Jacobus
Kapteyn Telescope (left) and Isaac Newton Telescope (right).
Credit: RGO.
Date: 1983.
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Caption: The new
2.54m mirror is shown here undergoing an inspection during polishing: the
polishing tool is raised above the mirror.
Credit: Sir
Howard Grubb Parsons and Company.
Date: Early 80s
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Caption: Isaac
Newton Telescope building and dome.
Credit: D. A.
Calvert.
Date: 1981.
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Caption: INT
building and dome erection.
Credit: RGO.
Date: 1981.
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Caption:
Building erection.
Credit: RGO.
Date: 1981.
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Caption: INT
building foundations.
Credit: RGO.
Date: Autumn 1980.
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Caption: Isaac
Newton Telescope erection.
Credit: RGO.
Date: 1983.
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Caption: Arrival
in La Palma of the INT primary mirror.
Credit: RAL.
Date: December
1982.
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Caption: Set up
of the INT vacuum tank.
Credit: RGO.
Date: 2 June 1983.
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Caption:
Computer laboratory.
Credit: RGO.
Date: 2 June 1983.
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Caption:
Building of the Isaac
Newton Telescope after completion
Credit: George
Nicholson
Date: 1982
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Caption: INT's
primary mirror in aluminisation tank.
Credit: George
Nicholson.
Date: 1983.
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Caption: INT
building from camping site.
Credit: George
Nicholson.
Date: 1982.
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Caption: Access
road to the observatory and INT in the background.
Credit: George
Nicholson.
Date: 1982.
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Caption: Work on
INT mounting.
Credit: George
Nicholson.
Date: 1983.
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Caption: Work on
INT mounting.
Credit: George
Nicholson.
Date: 1983.
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Caption: INT's
primary mirror.
Credit: George
Nicholson.
Date: 1983.
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Caption: INT
telescope.
Credit: George
Nicholson.
Date: 1983.
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Caption: The
observatory on La Palma was inaugurated by the King of Spain in ceremonies
in an open-air theatre near to the INT with the heads of state and the royal
guests and observatory dignitaries seated on the constructed platform.
Credit: RGO.
Date: 1985.
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Caption: The 'flags
of the cosmos', designed by Canarian artist César Manrique, flew
amongst the telescopes of the Roque, symbolically depicting worlds outside
our own. Here Io's magnetosphere flies above the William Herschel Telescope
building.
Credit: RGO.
Date: 1985.
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Caption: Manrique's
flags, the inauguration platform and the INT dome.
Credit: RGO.
Date: 1985.
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Caption: After
unveiling a plaque to dedicate the INT, the Duke of Gloucester opened the
dome shutter to the directions of Prof Alec Boksenberg. Prince Claus stands on the left.
Credit: RGO.
Date: 1985.
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