A night out with the Meade LX50
5 years ago today - setting up for a night out with my old Meade 10" LX50
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March 20, 2018
Research Blog: Open Sourcing the Hunt for Exoplanets
Open Sourcing the Hunt for Exoplanets Open Sourcing the Hunt for Exoplanets Recently, we discovered two exoplanets by training a neural network to analyze data from NASA’s Kepler space telescope and accurately identify the most…
March 18, 2018
Rare Metals On Mars And Earth Implicate Colossal Impacts – Astrobiology Magazine
Rare Metals On Mars And Earth Implicate Colossal Impacts - Astrobiology Magazine Elements found in the mantles of Earth and Mars could be indicative of giant impacts early in…
March 18, 2018
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
March 16, 2018
All disk galaxies rotate once every billion years
In a study published March 14 in The Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, astronomers announced the discovery that all galaxies rotate about once every billion years, no matter…
March 15, 2018
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…
March 14, 2018
THE POOR MAN’S TELESCOPE | Modern Mechanix
THE POOR MAN'S TELESCOPE - Mechanix Illustrated (May, 1962) Definitely an old school project! AS EVERY astronomer knows, a steady mounting is a must when using high magnification. Generally, to…
March 11, 2018
Juno reveals Jupiter’s interior in unprecedented detail
Jupiter’s interior has been revealed in unprecedented detail in observations by Nasa’s Juno spacecraft that show it to be as strange and turbulent as the planet’s surface. Despite extensive studies…
March 9, 2018
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.…
March 8, 2018
Chemical sleuthing unravels possible path to forming life’s building blocks in space
400 Bad request Scientists have used lab experiments to retrace the chemical steps leading to the creation of complex hydrocarbons in space, showing pathways to forming 2-D carbon-based nanostructures in…
March 7, 2018
Cicero’s Map to the Stars – Medieval manuscripts blog
Marcus Tullius Cicero, born on 3 January 106 BC, bestrides Latin literature like a colossus. The combination of an immense output of writings and a strong afterlife in the schools…
March 6, 2018
Should We Open Some Sealed Apollo Moon Samples?
Should We Open Some Sealed Apollo Moon Samples? Three containers of samples brought back to Earth by Apollo astronauts remain sealed today. Now is the right time to open…
March 6, 2018
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