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When we were kids, it was a rite of passage to read the newly arrived Edmund catalog and dream of building our own telescope. One of our friends lived near …read more Continue reading Build Your Own Telescope the Modern Way
It’s sometimes easy to forget that the light in the sky is an actual star. With how reliable it is and how busy we tend to be as humans, we …read more Continue reading Adaptive Optics Take Clearest Pictures of the Sun Yet
Here’s one for our astronomy geeks. Our hacker [arrow] has made their own observatory! This particular video is a bit over ten minutes long and is basically a montage; there …read more Continue reading Making a Backyard Observatory Replete With Retractable Roof
[Project 326] is following up on his thermal microscope with a thermal telescope or, more precisely, a thermal monocular. In fact, many of the components and lenses in this project …read more Continue reading Thermal Monocular Brings the Heat at 10X
Radio waves travel fast, and they can bounce, too. If you are able to operate a 25-meter dish, a transmitter, a solid software-defined radio, and an atomic clock, the answer …read more Continue reading Dwingeloo to Venus: Report of a Successful Bounce
Astrophotography, and astronomy in general, takes some fairly specialized tools and a high amount of precision. Setting up the equipment can also take a lot of time, especially for amateurs …read more Continue reading Tracking Deep-Sky Objects
At the time of its construction in the 1950s, the Dwingeloo Radio Observatory was the largest rotatable telescope in the world with a dish diameter of 25 meters. It was …read more Continue reading Amateur Radio Operators Detect Signals from Voyager 1
As anyone who’s looked at the sky just before dawn or right after dusk can confirm, for the last seventy years or so there have been all kinds of artificial …read more Continue reading Amateur Astronomer Images Spy Satellite
There was a time when building a telescope was a rite of passage for budding astronomers, much as building a radio was the coming age for electronics folks. These days, …read more Continue reading Orion Ceases Operations, Future of Meade Unclear
Stargazing can be a complicated and expensive business, but the folks at Beaverlab are looking to make things a little easier and cheaper with the Finder TW2 – a beginner-friendly telescope that’s billed as the world’s first AI-powered planetary camera… Continue reading Smart astro-camerascope brings the cosmos into sharp focus