Equatorial Mount: the concept

It took me two full hours to understand the concept of equatorial mount when I first started off as an amateur astronomer. First of all, the diagrams which I had where really terrible, and only mixed things up even more than the text only of the book I had. This is why I’m going to […]

Posted by Astronomy on November 20th, 2007

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JWST: A Successor for Hubble?

Has Hubble found its successor? Will the James Webb Space Telescope take up to the challenge?
Well, there are nearly all of the keys for this little (big) telescope to take up on what Hubble has left it to work with, because there’s still plenty of things to be discovered. With its 6.5 meter diameter, in […]

Posted by Astronomy on October 26th, 2007

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