This weekend is the release of the Movie Hubble IMAX 3D. During the last service mission for the Hubble Space Telescope, an IMAX 3D camera was along for the ride.
Here is a youtube trailer for the movie.
Posts Tagged ‘Telescope’
Hubble IMAX 3D: Starts This Weekend
Saturday, March 20th, 2010The Path of Light: Generation of Dreamers
Thursday, March 18th, 2010This is a couple of Youtube videos from Celestron. That focuses on Celestron’s founder, Tom Johnson, an electrical engineer, who developed the techniques for mass producing Schmidt-Cassegrain Telescopes, making these powerful astronomical instruments accessible to amateur astronomers.
Very inspiring, and Educational
“The Path Of Light” is a documentary celebrating astronomy, telescope making and human ingenuity.
Found a Couple of Good Magazines With CD’s.
Monday, January 25th, 2010My recent trip to Barns & Noble I found a couple of good magazines with CD’s.
The first one is the January 2010 Issue of SKY WATCH produced by Sky & Telescope
The CD is chalked full of PDF’s on
GETTING THE MOST FROM YOUR TELESCOPE
• Mastering Your Finderscope
• Sky Maps with Your Telescope
• Mastering Your Equatorial Mount
• No-Tears Collimation
And
GREAT SIGHTS TO SEE
• Binocular Bonanza
• Jupiter: Big, Bright, and Beautiful
• Ursa Major: Bear, Dipper, and Much More
• The Serpent Bearer
• The Hyades
And much more.
This is definitely worth having in your library.
The other one was by Sky and Telescope call Beautiful Universe. The CD has about 20 Images from world renowned astrophotographer Robert Gendler that worth being your wall paper for your desk top, and is on display until February 8th, 2010.
Colorado Astronomy Day 2009
Monday, October 26th, 2009Once again the weather skunked us again. We got set up at Observatory Park about 1pm. Wes and Neil brought their telescopes, and had set up the scale model of the solar system at the walk way at the west end of the park between Bromley Lane and Southern Street.
We did have about 25 persons show up, and after the wind died down we were able to do some out reach projects. We had a few people show up and ask several questions about the telescopes. Neil’s telescope is a vintage 8 inch modified Newtonian reflector for astrophotography, and was probably made around 1950’s or 60’s he is not sure. There is a manufacture tag on it saying it was made by Research Optical in Oshkosh Wisconsin.
Mrs. Aden and a few of her students from Overland Hill Middle School made it out to walk the solar system walk. Our next event will be at Barr Lake State Park on Saturday November 14th.
There is a photo of Neil’s Telescope in the Gallery under Star Parties.
Results from the Summer Solstice Star Party.
Sunday, June 28th, 2009
Thanks for everyone that showed up for our Summer Solstice Star Party, although it seem more like spring with the clouds coming and going. We had a few clouds roll in from the south as the sun was setting at about 8:30pm. The clouds broke enough so we could get good views of Saturn and the Moon. Then later on in the night we were able to spot in Messier 13 in Hercules, a Globular Star Cluster, and Messier 57 a Planetary Nebula remnant left from a star that died, We were also able to point out the Summer Triangle, and the consolations that make it up, these things were also described in our monthly International Year of Astronomy Outreach Education. We also talked about things like how telescopes work the different kinds of telescopes. We finally had to pack in about 12am as the clouds seem to return with a vengeance this time, and did not seem like they were going to leave us alone any time soon.
Build a telescope this weekend!
Monday, June 8th, 2009I hope everyone escaped the tornados over the weekend. I was in downtown Denver for the Capital Hill People’s Fair. Lots of fun to be sure!
For those of you that just don’t have a dog-gon thing to do over Father’s Day (June 21st) or the July 4th weekend, you might want to try your hand at making a telescope! Yes you heard me right, you can build your very own 4.5″ f8 telescope… and the best part of all… it will cost you under $100! How you ask? HOW under the stars can I make my own scope for under $100??? In the wonderful world of cyberspace all you have to do is point and click…
Visit The $90 Porta-Bowl Telescope! for the full scope, err… I mean scoop!
Cheers!
Adam
Telescopes and Equipment
Wednesday, May 27th, 2009This area is where we will talk about telescope and equipment that goes with the territory
