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Humans have loved looking up at the night sky for time immemorial, and that hasn’t stopped today. [MattHh] has taken this love to the next level with the Pi-lomar Miniature …read more Continue reading Pi-lomar Puts an Observatory in Your Hands
The Great American Eclipse was a solar eclipse that passed nearly the entire continental United States back in 2017. While it might sound like a once-in-a-lifetime event to experience a …read more Continue reading Balloon to Fly During Solar Eclipse
Ever since an impromptu build completed during a two-week COVID-19 quarantine back in 2020, [Will Whang] has been steadily improving his Raspberry Pi solar photography setup. It integrates a lot …read more Continue reading Solar Camera Built From Raspberry Pi
If you own a DSLR camera, you can simply buy more lenses as your needs dictate, instead of having to buy a whole new camera each time. The Sevunscope is intended to bring that same sort of upgradability to consumer telescopes.Continue ReadingCategory: … Continue reading Sevunscope gives telescopes the “swappable lens” treatment
Have 73 hours to kill and fancy a 4,609-mile road trip? Then you can check out some of the best observatories in the US (although we would probably recommend taking …read more Continue reading The Ultimate US Astronomy Roadtrip
If you’ve ever pointed your smartphone’s camera skyward on a full moon, chances are you were pretty disappointed with the result. French smart telescope maker Vaonis is aiming to get you closer to the celestial action with Hestia, a book-sized telescop… Continue reading Hestia telescope uses a smartphone camera for stargazing on a budget
Back at CES 2023, French smart telescope maker Unistellar launched a new model that could digitally remove light pollution from cities to give users a clear view of the stars. Now the company has improved on the formula with its new Deep Dark Technolog… Continue reading Deep Dark tech clears up light pollution for inner-city stargazers
Decades ago the astronomy world was taken aback by the discovery of strange vertical filaments of light spiking out from our galaxy’s central black hole. Now, the astronomer responsible for that finding has spotted more filaments, only these are orient… Continue reading Milky Way’s center found to be strung with more mysterious filaments
Saturn has overtaken Jupiter as the planet with the most known moons in the solar system. Astronomers have announced a bumper crop of 62 new moons orbiting the ringed planet, pushing its total to well over 100.Continue ReadingCategory: Space, ScienceTa… Continue reading Huge haul of 62 new moons gives Saturn the solar system record
[Christiaan Huygens] was a pretty decent mathematician and scientist by the standards of the 17th century. However, the telescopes he built were considered to be relatively poor in quality for …read more Continue reading Huygens’ Telescopes Weren’t Very Good, Now We Think We Know Why