Tycho Brahe Sphere in Santa Fe
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Harber explains: “This is a phenomenal project and, I hope, the start of many, many hours of star-gazing for the students of St John’s College. Sadly a fire destroyed the last of Tycho Brahe’s instruments in 1728, so it was only with the help of faculty members from St John’s College and scholars in the UK that we were able to piece together the information required to create this contemporary take on a historic design.”
The armillary sphere is 2.5 metres tall and made from marine-grade, mirror-polished stainless steel. It takes measurements of the positions of celestial objects by assigning a coordinate system to the celestial sphere..
