Astronomy in the New Millennia - From Edwin Hubble to the Hubble Space Telescope

"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." - Carl Sagan

Midway through the last decade of the twentieth century French astronomers Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz Observatoire de Haute-Provence... made a discovery that set the tone for the coming milenia. Whether by design or by...tv

• Chinese Manufacturing
• Large Telescope Arrays
• CCD Imagers
• Space Telescope Projects

There has never been a better time for astronomy, and at the amateur level there's never been a better and more difficult time to buy a telescope. The technology changes so rapidly that, practically anyone with a telescope more than six months old has wished they had held out just a little longer.

continued very soon... 12/22/2010

Telescopes and Computers: A Marriage made for the Heavens

In the early 1990's it became possible for amateur astronomers of modest means to own a telescope run by a computerized mount holding information and celestial coordinates for close to 50,000 deep space objects. With the push of a button, your telescope would begin slewing toward the target object, stopping when it reached the center of your eyepiece's field of view. The timing couldn't have been better. As light pollution worstened around the world these "Go-To" telescopes increased in popularity.