New video about the Nordic Optical Telescope
In October 2024 Cameron Lemon and Nikki Arendse travelled to the Nordic Optical Telescope to search for lensed quasars. In this video we get to follow their journey.
The Nordic Optical Telescope resides on the Roque de los muchachos extinct volcano on La Palma. OKC astronomers Cameron Lemon and Nikki Arendse travelled there in October 2024 to use the telescope to search for a highly remarkable object: a gravitationally lensed quasars. In this video, produced by science communicator Jonas Enander, we get to follow Cameron Lemon and Nikki Arendse in a "behind-the-scenes" look at what it's like to use a telescope in modern astronomy.
Last updated: February 3, 2025
Source: Jonas Enander