Tag Archives: Astronomy
With the invention of the first telescope the number of stars increased
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 … Continue reading
Huge impacts compelled huge exploration for Near Earth Objects
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 … Continue reading
Astronomy Clubs recommend some good scopes to you
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 … Continue reading
Near Earth Objects
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 … Continue reading
Astronomy Clubs
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 … Continue reading
Near Earth Objects
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 … Continue reading
Astronomy Clubs
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 … Continue reading
The Number of Stars
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 … Continue reading