‘Telescopes’ Archives
Kepler discovers 5 new exoplanets
On March 6, 2009, the Kepler space telescope was launched from Cape Canaveral with a primary mission to find Earth sized planets in a habitable zone around stars similar to our own by continuously and simultaneously observes more than 150,000 stars. Kepler's instrument, has measured hundreds of possible planet signatures which are currently being [...]
Tips on setting up and using your new Galileoscope
Its a terrible thing to get a telescope as a present and not know what to look at or indeed how to use it. Since I know quite a few people who got a galileoscope as a present, I thought it might be a good idea to give a few tips and pointers. So here are some simple things you should know. Please note: The Galileoscope is NOT a solar [...]
Celestron Sky Scout
As a very intermittent observer (ie time challenged / lazy) ,I find identifying and locating celestial objects hard going. I would love a Heads Up Display that could identify whatever object I happened to be looking at and could also tell me how to find specific objects by following my gaze and giving simple instructions ('up a bit', 'left', [...]
No visible 10km Plume from LCROSS impact
According to NASA TV there was no significant visible plume from the impact of the spacecraft. There is good spectographic data and it does show Sodium a cause for some excitement as it wasn't expected. Regarding the spectorgraphic data, they are being cautiously optimistic despite the lack of a visible plume, but they point blank refused [...]
