A little-known chapter of the Hubble Space Telescope’s history is a reminder of the risks of looking at the sun ...

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McKim is home to a brass meridian transit telescope with a 16 inch meridian circle made by Fauth and Company of Washington D.C. This type of instrument is a combination of a transit, which observes ...

Astronomical instrumentation are the tools used to observe objects and phenomena that occur in space. These can include both terrestrial and satellite-borne telescopes. High precision optical ...

The University of Sharjah hosted an astrolabe workshop in which western scientists showed participants how an astronomical instrument made by an ancient Muslim scholar nearly 1,000 years ago ...

A new instrument to help astronomers understand how stars are born is bound for the Large Millimetre Telescope (LMT) in Mexico. The Collaborative Heterodyne Astronomical Receiver for Mexico (CHARM) ...

The University of Sharjah hosted an astrolabe workshop in which western scientists showed participants how an astronomical instrument made by an ancient Muslim scholar nearly 1,000 years ago measured ...

If you want to take beautiful night sky pictures with your DSLR and you live between 15 degrees and 55 degrees north latitude you might want to check out OpenAstroTracker. If you have a 3D printer ...