EGYPT TO BUILD THE BIGGEST TELESCOPE IN THE ARAB WORLD AND AFRICA
In South Sinai, on top of one of the mountains, Egypt’s Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research revealed plans to build the nation’s largest astronomical telescope as a replacement for the Kattameya Observatory.
The largest telescope in the Middle East, North Africa, and the Arab world is housed at the Kattameya Observatory, which was established in 1964 as an extension of the Helwan Observatory, established in 1903.
The official emphasised that the observatory’s telescope will be 6.5 metres in diameter, as opposed to the existing observatory’s telescope at Kattameya in Cairo, which is just 1.9 metres.
