One of the current evolutions and revolutions going on in equipment for amateur astronomers is the reinvention of the portable telescope mount. Thanks to the miniaturization of advanced electronics ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ingersoll Machine Tools on Tuesday began construction of the largest telescope mount ever built in the United States. The 12-story ...

ROCKFORD, IL — August 28, 2024 — The Giant Magellan Telescope and Ingersoll Machine Tools Inc. today announced the start of manufacturing and assembly of the largest telescope mount built in the ...

Southern Arizona’s dry air, dark skies, and plentiful mountain peaks are prime conditions for the many world-class telescopes that dot the region. These conditions, unfortunately, come with ...

On March 15, 2012, the Large Binocular Telescope (LBT) made its first scientific results public; 25 years had passed since the project was first presented, but the wait was worth it. Among other ...

Pointing at stars may seem easy on the surface—just mount a telescope to a tripod and you’re done, right? As anyone who’s spent time with a telescope can tell you, it’s not that simple, given that the ...

Dating back to 1904, Mount Wilson Observatory was founded by Dr. George Ellery Hale in the mountains of Pasadena where some of the world's oldest telescopes are housed. When Hale established the ...

[GregO29] had a 10″ GoTo telescope but at 70lbs, it wasn’t really portable. And so he did what any self-respecting CNC enthusiast would do, he put his CNC skills to work to make an 8″ Newtonian ...

MOUNT WILSON – Five-thousand feet above Pasadena, a small group of USC researchers and graduate students celebrated a milestone last week: the 100th anniversary of Mount Wilson’s solar telescope. That ...

The CDK 14 telescope by Observable Space offers a 14-inch Corrected Dall-Kirkham design, fused silica mirror, carbon fiber tube, and advanced imaging capabilities.

I don’t know who said it first, but it bears repeating that the best telescope is the one that gets used the most. Many of you are familiar with different types of telescopes – reflectors are the ones ...

Mount Wilson Observatory (MWO) marked an important anniversary December 13. It has been 100 years since pioneer astronomer George Ellery Hale first gazed at the heavens through the observatory’s ...