>Steven Beckwith: Q&A with Hubble's Biggest Booster (SPACE.com)
The director of the Space Telescope Science Institute, which operates Hubble for NASA, talks about these tumultuous times as the telescope's life nears its end.
>Hubble slips away (The Space Review)
Certainly one of the most controversial NASA decisions in recent memory was the January 16, 2004 announcement that the agency had canceled the SM4 shuttle servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope.
>Sideways Motion of a Galaxy Measured (Universe Today)
Imagine you had a telescope powerful enough to watch a snail crawling across the surface of Mars. Divide that speed by 100, and that's how quickly galaxy M33 is moving sideways in the sky. Radio astronomers achieved this astounding measurement with the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA), which was even more difficult because they had to cancel out the Earth's motion around the Sun. Astronomers have
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Making a Telescope
MAKING A TELESCOPE. Updated March 16th 2004. Simple plywood construction: The following designs are typical of the types of telescopes made by some of our Club members. Prints 9 pages letter size. ... sky you are going to see at the lowest magnification of your Telescope. This is usually only about 1/2 to 3 ...
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Willmann-Bell, Inc. publishers and booksellers serving the Astronomy Community since 1973. ... Amateur Telecope Making Book 1. A Newtonian Telescope Mirror Making 1. A.1 Mirror Making for Reflecting ... Mirror 5. A.1.3 Making the Pitch Lap 6 ...
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Remember, you can search on this page by hitting Ctrl-F (Alt-F for you UNIX folks). If you have any links you'd like to see added to the list, or if you've discovered a bad link in the list, please click HERE. General Information. Telescope Tubes
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Making a Telescope
... MAKING A TELESCOPE. Updated March 31st 2001 ... sky you are going to see at the lowest magnification of your Telescope. This is usually only about 1/2 to 3 ...
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Mike's Amateur Telescope Making Page
... Mike's Amateur Telescope Making Page. I devoted a great deal of time to making ... I've strayed a long ways from astronomy and telescope making; now I'm a software consultant ...
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How to Build a Telescope
Guide to the amateurial fabrication of a telescope. ... a telescope works; here ... telescope is at the first quarter, when it appears only half illuminated. Under these conditions, lunar mountains and craters project long shadows, making ...
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Making a Telescope
Mikel Rodriguez. This mirror must be supported as carefully as the main mirror. A poorly mounted diagonal can easily ruin the quality of image which the primary mirror can produce.
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>Hubble slips away
The Space Review, MD - 3 hours ago
... plan for Hubble and its follow-on, the James Webb Space Telescope, released its ... withbut, he emphasized, separate fromthe SM4 decision-making process, of ...
>DVD Review: A Snake of June
Blogcritics.org - 4 hours ago
... In fact, they own an observatory and a large telescope, the better to disconnect ... with the director and his co-stars, and another, short "making of" featurette. ...
>FINDING MY RELIGION Sondra Barrett found God through a microscope
San Francisco Chronicle - 6 hours ago
... It's making tangible the workings of the universe -- the workings of biology, anyway ... know about the history of the microscope and the telescope -- somewhere in ...
>Greetings from Antarctica
The Diamondback, MD - 6 hours ago
... have made the grueling trip to Antarctica for the IceCube neutrino telescope project in ... Packaged food is shipped by plane to the camp, making fresh fruits and ...
