(Comet NEOWISE above DAO in July 2020. Credits: Hugh Thompson)
Virtual Rewards 2.0 - 2019/2020
This Virtual Cache is part of a limited release of Virtuals created between June 4, 2019 and June 4, 2020. Only 4,000 cache owners were given the opportunity to hide a Virtual Cache. Learn more about Virtual Rewards 2.0 on the Geocaching Blog.
The posted coordinates will take you to the bottom of the Dominion Astrophical Observatory (DAO) hill where you should find the answers to the following questions. Please log this cache as “Found it” and send the answers via my profile or the goechaching.com messaging service, and I'll contact you if there's a problem.
The observatory has been designated National Historic Site of Canada as it is a world-renowned facility where many discoveries about the nature of the Milky Way were made. Today, the telescopes are still in operation and the site hosts the National Research Council's Herzberg Astronomy and Astrophysics (NRC-HAA) research centre.
Questions:
1. What are the three kinds of telescopes that are “complementary in revealing different secrets of our universe in their own uniquely powerful way”?
2. When/what was the 6th Canadian astronomy milestone?
3. What is the name and the purpose of the instrument depicted on the panel titled : "From technology…”?
4. What is defined here as “cosmic barcode readers”?
5. What is the “heart” of a radio telescope receiver system?
Note: There is no need to go beyond the entrance gate of the obervatory to solve this virtual cache.