Good background on on Sony Exmor sensors, especially the GSTAR-EX3 used in astronomy cameras like the GSTAR-EX3 or Hypercam IMX178 What is Sony’s Exmor Technology Anyway? A personal CMOS tutorial by…
I think the ultimate telescope control project based around either an Arduino or Raspberry Pi is still a little way off, but this certainly has some promise. Control Your…
Cool! A nearby "Super Earth" - only 21 light-years away in the inner habitable zone of its small, red 'M dwarf' star. Almost 3 times more massive than Earth, this exoplanet…
Picked up from twin instruments, Ligo and Vigo. New gravitational wave detection shows shape of ripples from black hole collision For the first time, astronomers have detail on the 3D…
Planning has started on the next generation of The National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO). NRAO and AUI are launching development of a new radio-telescope system with the advanced capabilities to answer…
Discovery of the Cassiopeia A supernova remnant as a natural particle accelerator of up to PeV energies (1 PeV = 1.000 TeV and implications of galactic radiation. Very interesting article. https://phys.org/news/2017-09-explanation-galaxy-cosmic.html…
Very detailed article about the differences between CMOS and CCD cameras. Comparison of CMOS and CCD in the field of spectrography For spectrographic applications in particular, I compare the…
Further evidence about the Earth being struck by a large, Mercury size object in the early life of the Solar System Research by Rice University Earth scientists suggests that virtually…
Pluto’s Methane Snowcaps on the Edge of Darkness The southernmost part of Pluto that NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft could “see” during closest approach in July 2015 contains a range…
The MAVEN mission has identified the process that appears to have played a key role in the transition of the Martian climate from an early, warm and wet environment that…
Info on producing Hubble palette images using Photoshop. Creating Hubble Palette Color Mapped Images Creating Hubble Palette Color Mapped Images Source: bf-astro.com/hubblep.htm
Rear view of New Technology Telescope (NTT) at ESO's La Silla Observatory, located on the outskirts of the Chilean Atacama Desert, 600 km north of Santiago de Chile. Inaugurated in 1989, the…