SIVUYILE MANXOYI(FIVE YEARS LATER) #1, SAAO, OBSERVATORY, CAPE TOWN
HERSCHEL GIRLS SCHOOL, CAPE TOWN + THE SKETCH BY ASTRONOMER JOHN HERSCHEL OF HIS TELESCOPE UNDER CONSTRUCTION 1834
HERSCHEL GIRLS SCHOOL, CAPE TOWN #1, (FROM THE SKETCH BY ASTRONOMER JOHN HERSCHEL OF HIS TELESCOPE UNDER CONSTRUCTION 1834)
HERSCHEL GIRLS SCHOOL, CAPE TOWN #2 (FROM THE SKETCH BY ASTRONOMER JOHN HERSCHEL OF HIS TELESCOPE UNDER CONSTRUCTION 1834)
LOOKING FOR JOHN HERSCHEL, HERSCHEL GIRLS SCHOOL, CLAREMONT, CAPE TOWN, WESTERN CAPE
THE HIDDEN TELESCOPE, NAVAL HILL PLANETARIUM, BLOEMFONTEIN, FREE STATE
NEIL VILJOEN, TELESCOPE SHOP, BRAKPAN, GAUTENG
I photographed this from my backyard here in Brakpan - in the middle of the city. I use multiple different filters like hydrogen alpha, sulphur two and oxygen three. Those filters only allow a narrow spectrum of light through of 6 nanometers. That basically blocks out all the light pollution that one gets in the city, so you can get high-quality pictures from town.’
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SUKUMA MKHIZE, SAAO OBSERVATORY, CAPE TOW
NEIL VILJOEN, TELESCOPE SHOP, BRAKPAN, GAUTENG
‘I photographed this from my backyard here in Brakpan - in the middle of the city. I use multiple different filters like hydrogen alpha, sulphur two and oxygen three. Those filters only allow a narrow spectrum of light through of 6 nanometers. That basically blocks out all the light pollution that one gets in the city, so you can get high-quality pictures from town.’
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JURG WAGENER #2, STAR GAZER, STERLAND, SUTHERLAND, NORTHERN CAPE
’You have to be devoted, I’m basically outside every night. I meet so many people, and it gives me a reward - when people say they enjoyed it. Lastly I would say you learn how insignificant we are in the greater universe and it makes you feel humble - that is the way I want to look at it every night.’
Jurg Wagener, Star Gazer
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STERLAND, SUTHERLAND, NORTHERN CAPE
'I have to agree that it is not only our world - it is such a vast area, it is a never ending story… where do you stop, where do you begin? Once again it makes you feel very humble.’
Jurg Wagener, Star Gazer
I become very happy when I’m up there, partly because of nature, you see all kinds of natural things. Also the mirrors, how they clean the mirrors and how they are so busy with the the machinery and all those things - it’s all beautiful. I left school early, but I did have science at school, and it attracts me - when I see the things they do. It makes me curious to learn about the telescopes.’
Anna van Wyk, Sutherland local.
INSIDE SALT (SOUTH AFRICAN LARGE TELESCOPE), SAAO, SUTHERLAND, NORTHERN CAPE
I become very happy when I’m up there, partly because of nature, you see all kinds of natural things. Also the mirrors, how they clean the mirrors and how they are so busy with the the machinery and all those things - it’s all beautiful. I left school early, but I did have science at school, and it attracts me - when I see the things they do. It makes me curious to learn about the telescopes.’
Anna van Wyk, Sutherland local.
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JESS VAN ELFEREN, SHOPKEEPER, TELESCOPESHOP, BRAKPAN, GAUTENG
’And then we have Betelgeuse, that's a very important star. It's in the Orion constellation and some scientists to say it's already gone supernova. Some say it still has to. As astronomy is a science, it's still being looked at and studied, so we always say nothing is fact until it is proven. Why? Because man hasn't been in space - we cannot get there. We cannot really study the stars. We don't know anything until we actually have the facts - we do by mathematics and other subjects study space and the universe, but all of it is theoretical until we can prove it's fact.’
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TELESCOPES, TELESCOPE SHOP, BRAKPAN, GAUTENG
‘When I was a young girl, we didn’t have telescopes. We had small binoculars mostly because it was after the world war. Today there are so many telescopes - and they are amazing. From this little size from where you could see the moon and the Planets to that big one over there where you can see literally everything.’ - Jess van Elferen, Shopkeeper, Telescope Shop, Brakpan, Gauteng.
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