Small instruments – whether for amateur ... while telescopes flown aboard balloons or aircraft need to be compact. Although reflecting telescopes can be much lighter than similar-sized ...

Small instruments – whether for amateur astronomers starting ... while telescopes flown aboard balloons or aircraft need to be compact. Although reflecting telescopes can be much lighter than ...

Swarms of satellites launched by SpaceX and other companies are disrupting astronomical observations. Here's how scientists ...

This opened the way for the great reflecting telescopes of the twentieth century ... and large high-deformation and small high-actuator-density deformable mirrors. To obtain a good image ...

Spahr with the 6.5-m reflector telescope based at the Fred ... At this brightness, you could spot it using a pair of binoculars or a small telescope. (On the magnitude scale used by astronomers ...

"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University Belfast and a member of one of Nasa's sky surveys that searches and tracks ...

Jupiter sets by 1 a.m. local daylight time at the end of the month and offers long evening views in small telescopes of its ... and comes from sunlight reflecting off fine, dusty debris littering ...

One of the most important things to keep in mind is that you will be photographing daylight reflecting from the moon’s surface ... The phone camera’s sensor is physically small, and unless you adjust ...

Welcome to the next instalment of our ‘Spotlight on’ series where we celebrate the world-leading work of our academics. Professor Carlos Frenk’s pioneering work on dark matter has fundamentally shaped ...

Eight years later, Pierre Mechain discovered M51’s small companion galaxy ... described until 1845 when Lord Rosse viewed the galaxies through his six-foot reflector telescope. M51 has a visual ...