Such gatherings are ideal "showrooms" for commercial as well as home-built telescopes. But now, I'm about to make a suggestion that few prospective telescope buyers, especially those neophytes of ...

To aid your own endeavors in this realm, you might consider following [aeropic’s] example in building a capable wireless telescope DSC. Yes, [aeropic] built a capable digital setting circle (DSC ...

That secondary mirror, in turn, bounced the light (and thus the image seen) into a convex eyepiece lens built into the side of the tube. This was the first working reflecting telescope.

The Allen Telescope Array (ATA) is the first radio telescope to be designed from the ground up to be used for SETI searches.Until its construction, all radio SETI efforts were dependent on the ...

When it comes to an engineering marvel like the James Webb Space Telescope, the technology involved ... observatory that cost $10 billion to build and operates at a temperature of 50 K (−223 ...