The first thing you need to do is find out where the planets will be in the night sky from your location, at a certain time. To find this information, you can use planetarium software that recreates a current view of the night sky from your location on Earth. There are many fantastic...
There is a certain pride and satisfaction in using an instrument that you have built yourself. If you do not want to grind your own optical parts, many pieces (objective lenses, primary and secondary mirrors) are available commercially -- all you have to do is assemble them according to ...
There is a certain pride and satisfaction in using an instrument that you have built yourself. If you do not want to grind your own optical parts, many pieces (objective lenses, primary and secondary mirrors) are available commercially -- all you have to do is assemble them according to ...
If you've ever been to a planetarium, there's a chance you've seen an IMAX movie formatted for the large dome. Well, since Apple Vision Pro doesn't have a limit to what can be created in the 3D space, you can now easily watch such content right from your face c...
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Trips to the Adler Planetarium in Chicago when I was a kid in the late 1970's and 80's. Around this time, my uncle gave me my first telescope, a 4.25" Newtonian reflector. First views of the Moon, Saturn, Jupiter, M42, M31, etc... I was hooked, but then took a long break fro...
My father had subscriptions to "Popular Science" and "Popular Mechanics" magazines, and in 1952, when I was eight, he started taking me to the Sunday afternoon "sky shows" at Pittsburgh's Buhl Planetarium. Since I showed a real interest in learning more about astronomy, he bought me a pl...
It’s 365.242 days, said Nick Eakes, an astronomy educator at the Morehead Planetarium and Science Center at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. Thomas Palaima, a classics professor at the University of Texas at Austin, said adding periods of time to a year to reflect ...
In summer, get there by biking or hiking -- the main paths are very well marked. In winter, the mountain offers fun in the form of snowtubing, sledding, cross-country skiing, and snowshoeing. The ice-skating rink and pavilion were restored in 2005. Venture to the Montreal Planetarium (...
Moon and stars - Planetarium experiments have proved that many birds rely on stellar cues to figure out which way to migrate. We can even tell which star they are orienting from (Betelgeuse, in the case of indigos - [source: Purves]). Wildebeest crossing creek bed in the Masai Mara, Ken...