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The below poem by Walt Whitman kind of makes me chuckle a bit. Much of science can seem to be dry if presented solely in the form of numbers and charts and diagrams. To a poet, it may seem kind of dry and without romance. But, really, it is all romantic. All […]
The Leviathan of Parsonstown was the telescope that Lord Rosse, also known as William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse (mentioned in the two previous posts), built in Parsonstown, Ireland, now known as Birr and situated at what is known as Birr Castle. That telescope was the telescope that trumped all telescopes of that […]
These last couple of weeks have seen me writing code to ingest the images the DES camera will take when it goes online into our database.
The numbers are staggering. Each night, we’ll produce 300GB of data for a total of about 165 terabytes by the end of the survey, and that’s just the raw data […]
Photo Credit: Ruth L.
This year marks the 400th anniversary, the Quadricentennial, of the invention of the telescope. The earliest known record of the invention of the telescope belongs to Hans Lipperhey,
“who claims to have a certain device by means of which all things at a very great distance can be seen as if […]
I got one of these for Christmas and was able to test it out in Colorado before I left. I used it on my 10-inch SCT with a 2x barlow and a 26mm eyepiece. This setup gave me a magnification of 154x and a 0.34 degree field of view.
There was a striking difference […]
Now is an excellent time to view Mars. If you just got a new telescope for Christmas, you’ll be able to get excellent views of Mars throughout January.
Here’s where it is (click on it to see a bigger one):
Mars is visible over the eastern horizon in the early evening.
Most telescopes will show you a […]
Did you know there was an observatory on an active volcano?
Since 1960, the High Altitude Observatory has operated the Mauna Loa Solar Observatory. It is accessible only by a tiny paved road off of the Saddle Road on the big island of Hawai’i. The road is virtually invisible and you’ll miss it if […]
I know everyone got a new telescope for Christmas this year, so I thought I’d write up a series of posts on what you can expect things to look like through your new time-sink.
Using the magic of Stellarium, I thought I’d show you how some of the more common objects will look through your eyepiece. […]
All I can say is, you’re gonna need one hell of a monitor for these images…
I was in a meeting yesterday listening to a presentation from some folks at the University of Indiana discussing issues surrounding their One Degree Imager and was fascinated by the instrument.
Sometime in 2010, a 32,000×32,000 pixel camera (that’s a billion […]
For most of people who love their astronomy buffs, they can’t see the appeal of some of the gadgets we buy. It’s good that we’ve found significant others who love us in spite of our desire to stand alone for hours in the dark gathering faint photons from the sky with god-knows-what-that-thing-is.
If you found […]
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