Telescopes are specialist optical instruments that have been around for over 400 years and are useful for many applications including seafaring, military operations and especially stargazing. But not ...

Buying a telescope, like buying a car or stereo equipment, is subject to your tastes as a consumer. In other words, the choice is up to you — but Astronomy can provide some guidelines to make your ...

Early telescope makers, such as John Dollond, patented and commercially produced achromatic refracting telescopes, significantly improving upon earlier designs by reducing color fringing. Henry Fitz ...

For many, fascination with the heavens is as endless as space itself. If we could just get a glimpse of another world, maybe ours would make more sense? The right telescope reveals the wonders of the ...

The original instrument to occupy the 25-foot diameter dome was the 10.5-inch Bausch refracting telescope (f/15.5) installed in the brand new observatory in 1953. Bausch & Lomb Company gave the ...

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[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kdolT1b8WI&hl=en&fs=1] Derrick Pitts, lead astronomer at Philadelphia’s Franklin Institute, talks about the telescope used ...

Winds exceeding 110 mph that tore across the top of Mount Hamilton early Christmas morning blasted a massive steel protective ...