Category: Telescopes
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World’s Next Largest Telescope Hopes to Answer Question of Life Beyond Earth
World’s Next Largest Telescope Hopes to Answer Question of Life Beyond Earth There’s a telescope under construction in Chile, and it’s slated to be the world’s largest – if it’s completed in time. Source: chicagotonight.wttw.com/2018/07/31/world-s-next-largest-telescope-hopes-answer-question-life-beyond-earth
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Supersharp Images from New VLT Adaptive Optics
Supersharp Images from New VLT Adaptive Optics ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) has achieved first light with a new adaptive optics mode called laser tomography — and has captured remarkably sharp test images of the planet Neptune, star clusters and other objects. The pioneering MUSE instrument in Narrow-Field Mode, working with the GALACSI adaptive optics…
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Sandia Labs apply design for additive manufacturing to build precision telescope
Sandia Labs apply design for additive manufacturing to build precision telescope Sandia Labs apply design for additive manufacturing to build precision telescope Usng sub-par materials and inaccurate dimensions does not sound like the appropriate start to a precision engineering project. However, a team at Sandia National Laboratories has done just that. Source: 3dprintingindustry.com/news/sandia-labs-apply-design-additive-manufacturing-build-precision-telescope-133906/
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Schmitt-Cassegrain Collimation Made Easy Using a Duncan Mask | Alpha Lyrae
Possibly one of the best and easiest ways to collimate an SCT! Schmitt-Cassegrain Collimation Made Easy Using a Duncan Mask | Alpha Lyrae Very simple method of achieving excellent collimation of a Schmitt-Cassegrain using a home made Duncan Mask. Source: alpha-lyrae.co.uk/2013/12/31/schmitt-cassegrain-collimation-made-easy-using-a-duncan-mask/
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340,000 stars’ DNA interrogated in search for Sun’s lost siblings | Australian Astronomical Observatory
Using the Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT), an Australian-led group of astronomers working with European collaborators has revealed the “DNA” of more than 340,000 stars in the Milky Way, which should help them find the siblings of the Sun, now scattered across the sky. This is a major announcement from an ambitious Galactic Archaeology survey, called…
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Sharper Focus -Part 1- The Why and How of Adaptive Optics
Sharper Focus -Part 1- The Why and How of Adaptive Optics The Atmospheric Lens TMT’s unprecedented ability to peer into the depths of the Universe means it will have a phenomenal impact on many areas of astronomy. But in this age of space-based telescopes, you may have wondered how a ground-based observatory like TMT…
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Watch – people react to looking at the moon through a telescope
Watch – people react to looking at the moon through a telescope Watch – people react to looking at the moon through a telescope Source: boingboing.net/2018/03/15/watch-people-react-to-lookin.html
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Repairs completed on Lowell Observatory’s Pluto telescope
Repairs completed on Lowell Observatory’s Pluto telescope FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — An observatory telescope in Arizona used to discover the distant Pluto nearly 90 years ago will reopen for business on Saturday after a year of extensive Source: azdailysun.com/news/state-and-regional/repairs-completed-on-lowell-observatory-s-pluto-telescope/article_bbab6272-7e13-5a25-9344-7d5d04721e8c.html
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UChicago activities at Yerkes Observatory to end in 2018
The historic Yerkes Observatory is to close in 2018. Established in 1897 by George Ellery Hale, it’s home to the largest refracting telescope in the world, the 40″ Yerkes telescope. The University of Chicago has announced plans to wind down its activities at Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay, Wis., over the next six months and…
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Telescope Building with John Dobson
If you have or even heard of a “Dobsonian Telescope”, you’ll know they’re a low cost, easy to manage telescope. Here’s the man who popularized them and brought the joys of astronomy to many. This unique video shows John Dobson grinding mirrors hand and build the telescope mount and tube. A must for any serious…
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Watch the Casting of a Giant Mirror for the First Extremely Large Telescope
Watch the Casting of a Giant Mirror for the First Extremely Large Telescope A look inside the Mirror Lab, where astronomers go when they need some serious glass. Source: motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/bj7d3z/mirror-giant-magellan-telescope-extremely-large
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Astronomers Will Fight to Save WFIRST Space Telescope from Being Axed
Astronomers Will Fight to Save WFIRST Space Telescope from Being Axed Leaders of the American Astronomical Society have denounced the White House’s proposed cancellation of NASA’s Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST). Source: www.space.com/39714-aas-responds-wfirst-proposed-cancellation.html
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ESO’s VLT Working as 16-metre Telescope for First Time – ESPRESSO instrument achieves first light with all four Unit Telescopes
ESO’s VLT Working as 16-metre Telescope for First Time – ESPRESSO instrument achieves first light with all four Unit Telescopes The ESPRESSO instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile has for the first time been used to combine light from all four of the 8.2-metre Unit Telescopes. Combining light from the Unit Telescopes…
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The Hooker 100-Inch Telescope turns 100
The wonderful Hooker 100″ telescope on Mt Wilson has turned 100! Access Denied PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — Astronomers are celebrating the centennial of the 100-inch (2,540-millimeter) Hooker Telescope at Southern California‘s Mount Wilson Observatory . The reflector telescope’s first observations occurred in 1917 on the night of Nov. 1 and into the morning of Nov.…