Today on @cosmicsavannah, Timothy Roelf from University of Cape Town talks about his project which is going to contribute a lot to improving the performance of telescopes such as MeerLICHT and BlackGEM
Apr 24th: Watching The Watchers
Tag: telescope
Apr 12th: Astronomy With The Unaided Eye
We talk a lot about telescopes, but you really don’t need any special equipment to appreciate what the night sky has to offer. Let’s talk about what kinds of things you can see with just your eyes.
Mar 21st: The eVscope from Unistellar
New telescope for amateurs that promises to get our night skies back. The eVscope.
Aug 27th: Astronomy Without A Telescope: Much Ado About Nothing
Cheap Astronomy presents a podcast about nothing
Aug 2nd: Instruments and Singing Asteroids
In this episode @cosmicsavannah discuss about the complicated instrumentation for South African telescopes & singing asteroid.
May 30th: We’re Gonna Need Bigger Telescope
What came before the big bang? How do we know the shape of the universe? We’re gonna need a bigger telescope!
Apr 28th: One Half Inch & Not Human
What factors control the sharpness of our telescope’s images and how these processes determine the faint limit of the asteroids we are able to discover?
Apr 23rd: Tsiolkovsky’s Rocket Equation & Hooke’s Law
Steve and the Cheap Astronomy team cover some more physics formulas about launching rockets and bending things.
Apr 9th: Built For Purpose
Cheap Astronomy goes back to basics with a podcast on rockets and telescopes.
Jan 19th: Professional Off-The-Shelf Astronomy Gear
What gear do professional astronomers use that is available commercially?