Details developments on Mount Wilson Observatory. Mount Wilson as site of major astronomical discoveries; Monitoring subtle patterns of velocity change on sun's surface, sunspots, magnetic activity in stars; Detailed information on stars and star-forming regions; Atmospheric Compensation Experiment (ACE)...
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Bob is an old friend and I used to have a robotic observatory in Virginia using ACP. I saw this thread, and wanted to share information that I posted on Facebook in the Seestar Forum. See post script below on the limitations of using SkySafari. SkySafari is a much-loved planetarium prog...
My telescope + camera is longer than the height of the mount head allows, so there are two areas of the sky where at high elevation the camera runs right into one of the two "front" tripod legs. That was the situation this month, imaging NGC-1333. I presume it could happen with the...
needed to move on, (also before the vodka arrived) as the day was bound to be long and it is already autumn and sunlight is limited. He bid us farewell, and pointed a path out of the back of the observatory which led towards the Kosmostantsiya a few hours later, and so we set ...
Mount Stromlo Observatory Reopens.Reports on the re-opening of Mount Stromlo Observatory in Australia. Background of the observatory; Components of the redevelopment; Self-guided tours of the site; Night-sky viewing program.AguirreEdwinL.EBSCO_AspSky & Telescope...
Mount Stromlo Observatory.Reports on the destruction of the Mount Stromlo Observatory in Australia by wildfires on January 18, 2003. History of the observatory; Conception of the idea by Walter Geoffrey Duffield; Facilities and amenities destroyed along with the observatory.Bracher...
Mount Wilson Observatory.Reviews a site on the World Wide Web named Mount Wilson Observatory.RichterBetsyFischerMatthewJ.NetGuide
Construction of Observatory on Mount Graham Would Violate Sacred Site, Indian Tribes Say.Discusses the row between the San Carlos Apache Tribal Council and Astronomers of the University of Arizona. Plan of the astronomers to build telescopes on a mountain regarded as a sacred religious site to ...
Focuses on the benefits offered by the Hooker solar telescope installed by scientist George Ellery Hale to the Solar Observatory at Mount Wilson in southern California. Experimental version of the telescope; Efforts of Hale to solve problems with the telescope; Capabilities of the telescope.Bracher...