Turn Left at Orion Book Review
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“The 20-Cm Schmidt-Cassegrain Telescope: A Practical Observing Guide” Book Review
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Read the articlePreventing Sick Spaceships
Picture this: You’re one of several astronauts homeward bound after a three-year mission to Mars. Halfway back from the Red Planet, your spacecraft starts suffering intermittent…
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I’ve been interested in astrophotography for a number of years and dabbled with it on and off, taking the ubiquitous star trail type images and also…
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The Forgotten Astronomers
By Tim Carr Even those people who know nothing about astronomy (and there are plenty of them, it would appear) have heard of Galileo and how…
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Forgotten Astronomers – Rene Descartes
By Tim Carr If Nicholas of Cusa and Ulugh-Beg weren’t famous then this man certainly was, and still is. The “father of modern philosophy” and brilliant…
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Book review by Tim Carr Isaac Newton: The Last Sorcerer By Michael White Like most people my view of Isaac Newton was the traditional one. Lonely…
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Forgotten Astronomers – Ole Romer
By Tim Carr In 1676 a thirty-two year old astronomer from Denmark stood up in the Academy of Sciences in Paris and announced that he had…
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Forgotten Astronomers – Ulugh Beg
By Tim Carr The great Mongol empire was not noted for its scientific achievements and with good reason. But in 1428 Tamerlanes’ grandson Muhammed Targai Ulugh-Beg,…
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Forgotten Astronomers – Nicholas of Cusa
By Tim Carr You might think that anyone who published a book in 15th century Europe, saying that the Earth was just another world orbiting the…
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