Nissan Navara pick-up turned into a mobile Observatory

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Пикап Nissan Navara превратили в мобильную обсерваториюTrailer mounted telescope PlaneWave.

Nissan has resorted to the help of European space Agency (ESA) and turned the Navara pickup truck into a mobile Observatory. Prototype called the Navara Dark Sky equipped with a professional telescope and presented at the exhibition of commercial vehicles in Hanover.

Show car Nissan Navara Dark Sky became part of a project on compiling the most accurate map of the starry sky. To do this, use the ESA astrometric satellite Gaia, which has already passed the first set of data of more than a billion closest to the Earth stars.

According to the plan of Nissan, a truck like that astronomers can use to get to places c the so-called perfect-dark skies (Excellent Dark Sky), where the least interference caused by light pollution (lighting the night sky by artificial light sources) and high brightness of celestial objects.

The trailer, which features a PlaneWave telescope, equipped with a protective casing with a mechanical drive. Inside the module the air is continuously cooled to avoid the calibration of high-precision optics. A telescope allows you to look for the rings of Saturn and to see distant galaxies and nebula.

Пикап Nissan Navara превратили в мобильную обсерваторию
Пикап Nissan Navara превратили в мобильную обсерваторию
Пикап Nissan Navara превратили в мобильную обсерваторию
Пикап Nissan Navara превратили в мобильную обсерваторию

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