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What does one do when frustrated at the lack of affordable, open source portable trackers? If you’re [OG-star-tech], you design your own and give it modular features that rival commercial offerings …read more Continue reading DIY Open-Source Star Tracker Gets You Those Great Night Shots
Anybody who has set up a satellite TV antenna will tell you that alignment is critical when picking up a signal from space. With a satellite dish it’s a straightforward …read more Continue reading Just How Is Voyager 2 Going To Sort Out Its Dish Then?
Important safety tip: When you’re sending commands to the second-most-distant space probe ever launched, make really, really sure that what you send isn’t going to cause any problems. According to …read more Continue reading Voyager Command Glitch Causes Unplanned Pause in Communications
Getting a closer look at the Moon isn’t particularly difficult; even an absolute beginner can point a cheap telescope towards our nearest celestial neighbor and get some impressive views. But if you’re looking to explore a bit farther, and especially …read more
Continue reading Explore the Cosmos with this DIY Digital Telescope
Keeping track of position is crucial in a lot of situations. On Earth, it’s usually relatively straight-forward, with systems having been developed over the centuries that would allow one to get at least a rough fix on one’s position on this planet. But for a satellite out in space, however, …read more
Continue reading Star Trackers: Telling Up From Down In Any Space
If you want to take beautiful night sky pictures with your DSLR and you live between 15 degrees and 55 degrees north latitude you might want to check out OpenAstroTracker. If you have a 3D printer it will probably take about 60 hours of printing, but you’ll wind up with …read more
Continue reading OpenAstroTracker Turns Your DSLR Into An Astronomy Instrument