Steve drove Helen and me to the Photographic Day at Chilbolton Research Station arranged by the RPS. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilbolton_Observatory for a more technical explanation.   We stopped for lunch at Winchester on our way.

 

Friars Gate Winchester	The Norman Romanesque Arch	Little Minster Street	Winchester Cathedral
North front of the cathedral	A decorated Bollard	Great Minster Street	The Old Vine pub
The Square	Steve reflected in shiny column	An alley off The Square	The Winchester Museum
The Eclipse Inn	"Shirl" from East Enders	The Spinning Wheel and West Cornwall Pasty Co.	All the bollards here were decorated
West Cornwall Pasty Shop	Door to St Lawrence Church, the ancient royal chapel.	The restored Boots the Chemists and details
Town Clock	Roman Sandals	Our lunch stop, The William Walker	The bar
Town Arms	. Shop Signs	Bakers Inn Passage	Steve and Helen at Lunch
Relief Map of the location of Chilbolton Research Station	The main Radar dish	Tony, our Guide, and friend	Cooling equipment inside the dish base?
Come on up	Pipes	Looking Down?	Spindle
Rain checking	In the fields	Clouds	Dish Supports
Fire Door	Satellite Communication dish	Bright Shirt	What??
Air Conditioning	Temporary Pipeline	Insulators	Instruments including wind speed "head"
Black Clouds	A photographer	Cloud Picture over Europe	Side view
Work Desk	What is??	Cable Trays	Real time Radar Image
Connections	Water vapour measurement	Laser Periscope	The Expert on the periscope
Data gathered by the Metrological Radar	The bottom mirror of the Laser Periscope	A Fluke?	Controls
New circuitry for a satellite to be launched that afternoon.	Work window view	Receptionist	Contoller
Crystal Ball, no longer used for weather forecasts	Model made in the workshop	Switch Board?	Start of the rot.
Spooky!	Friends?	Bird Scarer?	Praying for a good photo?
Dead Scarecrow	Counterweight	Umbels	It's like this
A trio of snappers	Steve examines the radar	Rain Clouds	Rain Clouds
Spiders Web	At the focus of the disc	Horizon	The wet LOFAR random Array
Another expert, (we also got wet)	More Connections	View through the weeds	Dalek?
Centre of the Dish	Before the rain	Dish moved to the right	Careful!
Four Solarised Images