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Watch What You Eat during Your Star Gazing Activities
Star gazers and amateur astronomers like to do what they love to do for hours. Quite often, they forget about the time of the day. Also, quite often star gazers don’t eat right during their activities – fast foods, chips and snacks are the “standard” foodstuff for star gazers.
You need to avoid such foods,… [Click here to continue]
How to Modify a Webcam to Use With a Telescope
Microscopes And Telescopes: Are They Similar?
Almost everyone can remember the day in school when they got to the science class and the teacher had the microscopes on the table. We all knew the fun that could be had looking at things up close and the things that we came up with to look at were almost infinite.
Telescopes were also… [Click here to continue]
Jupiter Observer’s Toolkit
Jupiter is the largest planet in the Solar System, has a retinue of 63 satellites (at last count) and shields Earth from inbound comets. One of it’s moons, Europa, is suspected of harboring an ocean beneath its icy crust, one that has a very good chance of supporting life.
Jupiter is a spectacular planet when… [Click here to continue]
Using Telescope Mount for Stargazing
If you have ever tried looking through a telescope without a telescope mount to steady your equipment, you understand the difficulty of focusing on a set object in the night skies. Compound that problem with a heavenly body that is actually moving across the sky and you realize that it is almost impossible to track… [Click here to continue]
How to Make a Wii Telescope Control
Want to have more fun with your Nintendo Wii? How about controlling an Orion Telescope Mount with a Wii controller? Watch this video on how to do it.
This video shows you how to make a Wiimote controls an Orion Atlas EQ-G (Also known as Eq6) mount. I used GlovePIE, BlueSoleil, and PPJoy to make… [Click here to continue]
How to Buy a Telescope
So you have decided that you want to take up astronomy. Many do! It’s a fascinating hobby after all. Many take up astronomy because their interest has been fired by a TV documentary which introduces them to the wonders of the heavens. Others become interested after talking to an avid amateur astronomer, and get bitten… [Click here to continue]
NASA Deadly Black Hole Video
Making Telescopes as an Art
Ever since man could wonder, he turned his face to wonder towards the stars. This is something that everyone knows, and something that everyone has probably seen at one time or another. With the invention of telescopes, man was able to actually get a big closer of a look at the things that have held… [Click here to continue]
Exoplanet Observation using Hubble Space Telescope
This is breathtaking and mind boggling – Hubble Space Telescope Directly Observes Exoplanet Orbiting Fomalhaut.
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has discovered an extrasolar planet, for the first time using direct visible-light imaging. The strange world is far-flung from its parent star, is surrounded by a colossal belt of gas and dust, and may even… [Click here to continue]

