What gear do professional astronomers use that is available commercially?
Jan 19th: Professional Off-The-Shelf Astronomy Gear
Deep Astronomy Archive
Dec 15th: Astronomy at the European Southern Observatory (ESO)
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Nov 17th: Our Space Telescopes Are Dying!
Think about it: Hubble is down to one gyro, maybe two; Kepler is in safe mode; and today, the Chandra X-ray telescope went into safe mode; Spitzer has run out of coolant but still doing science – our fleet of space telescopes is getting older what are we replacing them with?
Oct 20th: Hubble Space Telescope Goes into Safe Mode: Beginning of the End?
Bad news I’m afraid for the venerable Hubble Space Telescope. Hubble has been placed in safe mode as two of it’s critical gyros used for pointing have failed.
Sep 15th: The Hole in the Andromeda Galaxy
While imaging the Andromeda Galaxy, the Spitzer Space Telescope uncoverd a never-before-seen hole, the result of a collision with a nearby dwarf galaxy, in the Andromeda Galaxy.
Aug 18th: The Parker Solar Probe Mission
NASA just launched the Parker Solar Probe, a mission designed to get the closest we’ve ever been to the Sun.
Jul 21st: Forget Backyard Imaging! Use NASA Telescopes Yoursel
Why go through all the trouble and expense of buying and learning to use your own imaging equipment when you have access to ACTUAL Space Telescope data?
Jun 16th: Backyard Observatories and Viewer Questions
Time to talk about backyard observatories. Why? Observatories let you keep your telescope setup and aligned all the time
May 19th: DIY NASA Data Processing for Fun and Profit
This week, we re-visit processing data from NASA missions yourself.
Apr 21st: How to Process Images Taken Through Your Telescope
So you’ve spent the money, installed the equipment, hit the ‘Take Image’ button and you have a computer full of images. Now what?