If you’re just starting out on your journey across the celestial sphere, the Levenhuk Strike 90 PLUS telescope will be the perfect instrument for you. It is extremely easy to set up and use, and very simple to calibrate. It’s an ideal guide for touring the mysteries of the universe for children and adults alike, showing you breathtaking views of … Read the rest of this article
| The SLOOH Interface |
SLOOH is a robotic observatory on the Canary Islands. Every Monday, whenever conditions permit viewing, you can participate in multiple SLOOH “missions” over the course of an hour-long session.
What does SLOOH stand for? Apparently it’s about putting the OOH into SLEW!
High atop Mount Teide, on Tenerife in the Canary Islands, the telescopes of SLOOH stand … Read the rest of this article
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NASA released an interactive, 3-D photographic collection of internal and external views of the International Space Station and a model of the next Mars rover on Thursday, May 7.
NASA and Microsoft’s Virtual Earth team developed the online experience with hundreds of photographs and Microsoft’s photo imaging technology called Photosynth. Using a click-and-drag interface, viewers can zoom in to see … Read the rest of this article
Starring: Colonel Buzz Aldrin, USAF, R, Captain Alan Bean, USN, R, Captain Eugene Cernan, USN, R, Brig. Gen. Michael Collins, USAF, R, Brig. Gen. Charles Duke, USAF
Update, June 2009: In the Shadow of the Moon is now available on Blu-Ray in the United Kingdom. It’s unclear if it will play on … Read the rest of this article
Meade is introducing the $399 mySKY, a GPS-based point and shoot personal planetarium that can locate and identify 30,000 celestial objects and display sky maps, videos, images, and multimedia presentations about them on a built-in full-color LCD screen. The Meade mySKY lets you identify and find 30,000 objects in the sky – planets, stars, nebulae, galaxies, and more.
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I am relatively new to amateur astronomy. I’ve had a Meade ETX-125 for about 6 years, but it is only within the last 2 years that actually I found time to use it. Although it is a very capable telescope for its size, I wanted a bigger light bucket that was better suited for deep sky objects. I spent several … Read the rest of this article
Astronomy Books on the Go…
E-books have emerged from the shadows with Amazon’s recent launch its $189 Kindle e-book reader and service.
And Amazon provide a wind range of astronomy-themed ebooks that can be downloaded into the Kindle for those who like to read on the go, have several books to hand without being weighed down by them or … Read the rest of this article
Recommended Astronomy DVDs, Blu-Rays and 4K UHD Blu-Rays
4-Billion-Year-Old Relic From the Early Solar System Is Headed This Way
Hubble Space Telescope Finds the Most Distant Star Ever Seen
The Lessons Learned From a Simulated Asteroid Strike Over Europe
Teachers: Apply Now to the ESA Teach With Space Online Conference
First Panoramic View of Mars at Perseverance Rover Landing Site
NASA’s Webb Telescope Will Show Us More Stars at Higher Resolution
Animations of NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover Landing
NASA Is Providing Spanish-Language Coverage for the Livestream of the December 14 Solar Eclipse
NASA Names Artemis Team of Astronauts Eligible for Early Moon Missions
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