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 ...

Building a better refractor The ... when it finally began to come into its own. Standing on shoulders Both types of telescopes—Galileo's refractor and Newton's reflector—underwent improvements ...

With modern electronics, it is relatively easy to build your own radio telescope. To understand how it can be done, check out a recent paper by Jack Phelps posted to the arXiv preprint server.

3 min read The Hubble Space Telescope was designed ... the atmospheres of planets outside our own solar system, exploring their compositions and building data that could someday aid the search ...

Big fancy space telescopes are all well and good, but there’s something about being able to see things with your own ...

Deploying a telescope in space is one thing. Making two of them deep under the sea is a task in a league of its own. On a ship bobbing in the Mediterranean Sea, physicists — not typically known ...

HONOLULU Construction on a giant telescope will start again next week after lengthy court battles and passionate protests from those who say building it on Hawaii s tallest mountain will ...

Totimorphic lattices are still hypothetical; we don't actually have any of these materials that you could hold in your hands, let alone build into space telescopes. But this research is crucial ...

Chinese scientists are working to set up the world's largest refracting telescope in Tibet Autonomous Region for observing stars and planets. Deputy Director of the regional department of science and ...

This would avoid the challenges of testing and launch-proofing large, complex structures, like habitats and telescopes ... the same kind of material to build a variety of habitat modules.