Telescopes
Backyard Science: How You Can Make a Difference
[/caption] It's a great time to be an amateur astronomer! Nowadays, "backyard" astronomers armed with affordable CCD imagers, high-quality tracking mounts, inexpensive…
Make iPhone Astrophotography Easier With The AstroClip!
[/caption] They say necessity is the mother of invention, and if you've ever tried to take a picture through a…
What are Active Optics?
For astronomers and physicists alike, the depths of space are a treasure trove that may provide us with the answers…
Telescope Eyepieces: The Weakest Link
Do you have a new telescope, or are you considering buying a new one? Hopefully, you have chosen a telescope…
Message in a Wobble: Black Holes Send Memos in Light
[/caption] Imagine a spinning black hole so colossal and so powerful that it kicks photons, the basic units of light,…
Online Telescopes
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to look through a telescope, but don't have one? Are you…
Why Are There So Many Celestron Reviews?
I've had a couple of readers write me, wondering what was going on with all the Celestron telescope reviews. Are…
Astronomers Find Super-Earth With An Atmosphere
This artist's conception shows the newly discovered super-Earth GJ 1214b, which orbits a red dwarf star 40 light-years from our…
The Extremely Large Telescope
The European Southern Observatory (ESO) is planning on building a massive - and I do mean massive - telescope in…
Convex Mirror
A convex mirror is a spherical reflecting surface (or any reflecting surface fashioned into a portion of a sphere) in…