A young astronomer, a small telescope, and one faint dip in starlight helped change how scientists look for planets beyond our solar system. On September 9, 1999, David Charbonneau, then a 25-year-old ...
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Summer observing targets for small telescopes
Telescopes 4 inches or less in diameter are portable, easy to use, and great beginner instruments. Here, I’ll walk through some of the objects you can see this summer using a small telescope. The ...
I'm fascinated by Wolf-Rayet stars and want to know more about them. Are some of them observable with a small (4-inch) telescope? Pete Singley Reedsport, Oregon Wolf-Rayets (WR) are hot, young, ...
When I was in grade school I was fascinated by the world’s largest telescope: the 200-inch-diameter Hale Reflector on California’s Palomar Mountain. What a behemoth! At the time I enjoyed using a 4.25 ...
When I was in grade school I was fascinated by the world’s largest telescope: the 200-inch-diameter Hale Reflector on Palomar Mountain near San Diego. What a behemoth! At the time I enjoyed using a ...
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