Sixteen hundred years ago, the number of visible stars would have been about 2100 at any one time. So until optics were invented, the true number of stars could not have been guessed. With the invention of the telescope by Galileo the number of stars increased to just about 30195. But, even then just started [...]

A tiny but important discovery was made on the night of March 24, 1993. That night, a photograph of the stars was taken by the 0.4 meter telescope on Palomar Mountain in California. Eugene and Carolyn Shoemaker and David Levy studied that photograph of the stars and found an unknown comet. That comet made big [...]

Don’t you wish you could sit down and look through a large telescope? The VLT UT2 Kueyen telescope at the European Southern Observatory with a clear aperture of 8 meters with an M1 F# of 1.75 weighing in at 430 metric tons would give you some great viewing nights. But, don’t think you cannot see [...]

A small but important discovery was made on the night of March 24, 1993. That night, a photo of the stars was taken by the 0.4 meter telescope on Mt. Palomar in California. Eugene and Carolyn Shoemaker and David Levy studied that photo of the stars and found an unknown comet. That comet caused a [...]

Wouldn’t it be great if you had access to a large telescope? The Gemini South telescope with a clear aperture of 8 meters made of ULE on a TELAS mount would really be exciting to use. But, don’t think you cannot see great stuff or get good views of galaxies or even asteroids with a [...]

A seemingly small but tremendous discovery was made on the night of March 24, 1993. That average night, a photograph was taken by the 0.4 meter telescope on Palomar Mt. in California. Eugene and Carolyn Shoemaker and David Levy studied that photograph and found an unknown comet. That comet made big history. In July 1992 [...]

Let’s just say you had access to a large telescope? The VLT UT2 Kueyen telescope at Cerro Paranal, Chile with a clear aperture of 8 meters built in 1999 with an M1 F# of 1.75 made of Zerodur would really be exciting to use. But, don’t think you can’t get some good views or get [...]

Five hundred years ago, the number of visible stars would have been about 2500 at any one time. So until recent history, the total number of stars was extremely underestimated. With the optics of Galileo’s telescope the number of stars increased to about 28149. But, even then was really just a start. Even with a [...]