There might not be a man on the moon right now—but there may soon be a gazing eye. A new private venture aims to build a long-range telescope on our planet's little satellite, and it could happen as soon 2016.
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With this new view of a spectacular stellar nursery ESO is celebrating 15 years of the Very Large Telescope — the world’s most advanced optical instrument. This picture reveals thick clumps of dust silhouetted against the pink glowing gas cloud known to astronomers as IC 2944. These opaque blobs...
...the focus of the parabola? A radio telescope has a parabolic dish, with its receiver near the focus of the parabola. If the dish has a diameter of 85 meters and the focus is 35 meters from the vertex of the dish, how deep is the dish?
HOW do I begin to do this?
ALMA has arrived, and she is enormous. The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, or ALMA, was officially opened today in the high desert of the Chilean Andes. Guests including the president of Chile, Sebastián Piñera, gathered to celebrate the the largest ground-based astronomical...
The Members of the SKA Organisation agreed on a dual site solution for the Square Kilometre Array telescope, a crucial step towards building the world's largest and most sensitive radio telescope.
In 1990, the Broad Band X-ray Telescope orbited the Earth aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia, gathering data on galactic and intergalactic X-ray energy sources. Now it just gathers dust as government surplus. Unless, of course, you've got $7 million and a hankering for some nifty NASA...
VisionCare Ophthalmic Technologies, Inc., a developer of advanced visual prosthetic devices, today announced that the first patient has received the FDA-approved Implantable Miniature Telescope (by Dr. Isaac Lipshitz) procedure indicated to improve vision in patients with end-stage age-related...
I have never looked through a telescope. I have no idea what to expect. I have been reading a lot the past few weeks and am still having some trouble. So far, with my price range, I am looking at the orion xt8. i was going to get the xt8i but figured I should spend the extra money on accessories...
I recently was in a small antique shop and found a gold Victorian handheld telescope. I had been looking for an antique telescope, and I decided to get it. It is in fair condition, but it's missing the large end lens. I'm wondering if anyone may happen to know where I could most likely find a...
The Europeans weren't kidding when they named it the Extremely Large Telescope. It's, indeed, extremely large, obliterating previous records. The adaptive optics mirror on the ELT is 138 feet in diameter, compared to the 98 feet of comparable space eyes. More »
...on this please.....? i want to be able to view planets (not just one to see land from afar)
i'd like advice from people already into astronomy who know enough to advice me thanks
...on this please.....? i want to be able to view planets (not just one to see land from afar)
i'd like advice from people already into astronomy who know enough to advice me thanks
Camera is also brazz No 0121. Ha? Uhytap 50 1:35 F=5cm with a small oblong box like square with a line from the left middle side to the lower bottom and then to the right side
Camera has a hammer and sickle stamp and No 0121. Has name on camera and the lens but I can not read russian. Can you...
I know the Hubble telescope can produce microscopic pictures of Mars, but what about a telescope on earth? I don't mean a $100 walmart telescope either, but the million dollar NASA ones.
If so, please try to provide the closest pictures you can find that used and state they used an Earth based...
Stellarium is a nice piece of software, you can also use google earth to view the sky or microsofts virtual telescope, also "heavens above" is a good site to know.