Sky & Telescope (S&T) is a monthly American magazine covering all aspects of amateur astronomy, including the following: current events in astronomy and...
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Bortle scale (redirect from Bortle Dark Sky Scale)
astronomy Dark-sky movement The End of Night (book) International Dark-Sky Association (IDA) Light pollution Night sky Sky brightness Sky & Telescope (S&T) Bortle...
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Almanac article was misinterpreted by James Hugh Pruett in a 1946 Sky and Telescope article, leading to the calendrical definition of “blue moon” that...
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radio telescope is a specialized antenna and radio receiver used to detect radio waves from astronomical radio sources in the sky. Radio telescopes are...
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Amateur astronomy (redirect from Remote-controlled telescope)
enjoy observing or imaging celestial objects in the sky using the unaided eye, binoculars, or telescopes. Even though scientific research may not be their...
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The history of the telescope can be traced to before the invention of the earliest known telescope, which appeared in 1608 in the Netherlands, when a...
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Kecksburg UFO incident (section Sky & Telescope)
about the fireball in science journals. The February 1966 issue of Sky & Telescope reported that the fireball was seen over the Detroit-Windsor area at...
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components to create a large, portable, low-cost telescope. The design is optimized for observing faint, deep-sky objects such as nebulae and galaxies. This...
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entire sky (astronomical survey), and satellites which focus on selected astronomical objects or parts of the sky and beyond. Space telescopes are distinct...
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such as Sky & Telescope and Astronomy. In July 2024, Sky and Telescope magazine reported that Optronic Technologies, the owner of Orion Telescopes, had closed...
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