Archive for the ‘Amateur Astronomy’ Category
Livermore aims telescope at eyes - Bizjournals.com
Livermore aims telescope at eyes Bizjournals.com Key to the device is the same adaptive optics principles that allow astronomers to see distant stars from ground-based telescopes. ... |
Astronomy apps - BBC News
Astronomy apps BBC News They were using the Hubble Space Telescope and the imaginatively-named Very Large Telescope in Chile. But to explore the wonders of the universe you do not ... |
Southern Cross Stargazer - MiamiHerald.com
Southern Cross Stargazer MiamiHerald.com Four evening planets are visible in binoculars. The planetary lineup changes in the west. Dim Mars climbs to 1.8 degrees below silver Saturn. ... |
Tower Optical sees turnaround - Danbury News Times
Tower Optical sees turnaround Danbury News Times colored, coin-operated binoculars in use at tourist sites throughout the United States. Shortly after he began machining the parts for the binocular viewers ... |
BYU deep space discovery - ABC 4
BYU deep space discovery ABC 4 It's the largest, most sensitive, radio telescope in the world. A team of BYU students and professors may have just made it more capable of unraveling the ... |
Galileo and Saturn - Johnson City Record Courier, TX
 Sky & Telescope | Galileo and Saturn Johnson City Record Courier, TX In 1609 Galileo made his first perspicillum (see-through device) which we now call a telescope. It was initially used as a spyglass for ... This Week's Sky at a Glance |
Orion SeaOtter Waterproof Compact Binoculars - San Francisco Chronicle
Orion SeaOtter Waterproof Compact Binoculars San Francisco Chronicle Long ago, after wasting my money on a cheapo pair, I wised up to the fact that it's worth paying a bit more for binoculars built to withstand the sort of ... |
Buck Scoring Contest, Round III: Win a Pair of $500 Binoculars - Field and Stream (blog)
Buck Scoring Contest, Round III: Win a Pair of $500 Binoculars Field and Stream (blog) You are playing for a brand new pair of Cabela's Alaskan Guide Full-Size Binoculars in your choice of 8x42 or 10x42—a prize worth about $500. ... |
This Week’s Sky at a Glance - Sky & Telescope
Sky & Telescope | This Week's Sky at a Glance Sky & Telescope Use binoculars to try for Mercury and fainter Regulus much farther to Venus's lower right. Around 11 pm daylight-saving time, Jupiter rises roughly 6° lower ... Galileo and Saturn |
50-year career ends - Gladstone Observer
50-year career ends Gladstone Observer Wayne Wilson is hanging up the binoculars and flicking the switch on the microphone on Saturday, August 14 — his last race the Gladstone Cup. ... Anticipation builds |