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Gay Head Lighthouse

Aquinnah, Massachusetts, United States

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Constructed: 1799

Automated: 1960

Lens: First Order

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Bonus Fresnel Lens Picture:

Source: Wikimedia Commons

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Guess I'm a stamp guy now?

I already have my US Lighthouse Stamps Passport

Just got a National Parks Stamps Passport

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Finally got to put my new phone camera to the test and DAMN

(Bodie Island Lighthouse btw)

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Panel of a Hyper-radiant Fresnel Lens (late 19th century) located in the Santa Marta Lighthouse Museum in Cascais, Portugal. That panel of three was taken from the Berlenga Lighthouse 1985.

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Hello lighthouse blog, I miss you

Soon... I will have time

And also am gonna visit more lighthouses, again.

This time for lighthouse passport stamps! So that will be a fun journey to update y'all on

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Happy 2 years birthday to this blog!!!!

I haven't been posting regularly as much this past year as my academics have really picked up, but it's been an interesting two years!

This blog really was the turning point that got me really invested in lighthouses and especially Fresnel lenses!

In those two years I've climbed the oldest active lighthouse in the world, saw a panel of a hyperradial Fresnel lens, climbed a lighthouse during a full moon, and many more things!

Future plans involve starting to collect USLHS Passport stamps, visiting Cape Lookout Lighthouse, and collecting more lighthouse books and memorabilia! Once I finish this next semester I hope that life will settle down enough to start posting again.

Maybe I'll make a spreadsheet to keep track of the lighthouses I post.

Anyway thank you all for loving this blog and I hope we can all continue to share in our love of lighthouses!

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Lego Motorized Lighthouse is complete!

More details:

The keeper's house even has a little family portrait of the creator of the set and his family!

The lighthouse itself has a portrait of Augustine Fresnel, who created the Fresnel Lens!

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Oh right I was gonna take fancy pictures of my Lego set today

Hm

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Building the Lego motorized Lighthouse set and they have a whole two pages in the book dedicated to how they ended up designing the custom fresnel lens piece I'm literally gonna cry guys this is so sweet

They went through multiple models and tested them all and ended up going with a piece that both looks similar to the original with a similar functionality of focusing the light beam

This set has so much detail and thought put into it ahhhhhh

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Look at this shit guys

I even messed with the piece with my flashlight and it works! A little mini fresnel lens!

Building the Lego motorized Lighthouse set and they have a whole two pages in the book dedicated to how they ended up designing the custom fresnel lens piece I'm literally gonna cry guys this is so sweet

They went through multiple models and tested them all and ended up going with a piece that both looks similar to the original with a similar functionality of focusing the light beam

This set has so much detail and thought put into it ahhhhhh

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Like when I first saw the set I was a lil disappointed with how the fresnel lens piece looked cause I have a soft spot for the older ones. But Man

They put so much thought into it especially considering the limitations of the size of the set and the Legos themselves

Building the Lego motorized Lighthouse set and they have a whole two pages in the book dedicated to how they ended up designing the custom fresnel lens piece I'm literally gonna cry guys this is so sweet

They went through multiple models and tested them all and ended up going with a piece that both looks similar to the original with a similar functionality of focusing the light beam

This set has so much detail and thought put into it ahhhhhh

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Building the Lego motorized Lighthouse set and they have a whole two pages in the book dedicated to how they ended up designing the custom fresnel lens piece I'm literally gonna cry guys this is so sweet

They went through multiple models and tested them all and ended up going with a piece that both looks similar to the original with a similar functionality of focusing the light beam

This set has so much detail and thought put into it ahhhhhh

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Lobster Point Light, Ogunquit, Maine

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Perks of people knowing you like lighthouses is that they'll just give you stuff they find that has a lighthouse on it

My parents were at a rummage sale and got me a very pretty lighthouse painting as well as a patch from the Key West Lighthouse

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The Biarritz lighthouse (Lapurdi) [x]

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Busy busy week!

Exciting! But, busy

Posts will come when I have time

More likely ill find some more fresnel lens images

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Dondra Head Lighthouse

Dondra Head, Sri Lanka

Source: Wikimedia Commons | Wikimedia Commons

Constructed: 1890

Lens: Hyperradiant Fresnel Lens, possibly removed in 2020.

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