Touted as the last word in astrophotography, the Finder TW2 cannot track objects, suffers from poor build quality and has no ...

With the telescope being a Newtonian design, it means the optical system must be collimated to perform at its very best. This can be a confusing and frustrating process for the beginner as it ...

The Giant Magellan Telescope will be one of the world's most advance ground-based telescopes once it is completed, but for now the challenge is to turn the finalized design for it's rotating enclosure ...

Billions of dollars of observatory spacecraft orbit around Earth or in the same orbit as our planet. When something wears out ...

ROCKFORD, IL—Ingersoll Machine Tools Inc. recently began assembling the world’s largest telescope mount at its factory here.

Astronomers have been worried about congestion in orbit ever since SpaceX began launching batches of satellites for the ...

A new catalog providing information on millions of distant galaxies, which determines their distances with unprecedented ...

Satellite tracker and photographer Felix Schöfbänker has captured a variety of secret spacecraft on camera, revealing "things ...

When selecting a suitable guiding camera, there are a few important parameters to consider. While in the past autoguiding cameras were CCDs, today’s cameras use CMOS technology. These sensors offer ...

Experts warn Lofar telescope could be ‘effectively crippled’ by brighter second-generation V2-mini satellites affecting quiet ...

Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, the world’s most powerful solar telescope, operated by the NSF National Solar Observatory (NSO), achieved a major breakthrough in solar physics by successfully ...