No matter whether you’ve recently purchased your first telescope for astronomy and want to learn how to properly care for it, or your trusted favorite has started to look a little worse for wear, one of the most important aspects of maintaining a telescope is to properly clean its optics.At some point or another, it’s …
If you have purchased a new telescope, then you probably want to use it to its full potential.And this can often mean setting it up in the backyard so that you may get a better look at the planets and stars. Telescopes are usually cumbersome in their design, which means they can be strenuous to …
Becoming lost in the night’s sky is a wonderful experience. Stargazing from your very own backyard can be fun but street lights in your neighborhood can significantly impede your views. Sometimes, you will need to venture to more distant locations to see the stars and planets in all of their glory. While traveling to different regions …
Not really. You might be able to find specific telescopes that are designed to get wet and covers to protect them from the rain. But these are very uncommon and expensive.As a rule, it’s best not to get your telescope wet. This is because they are predominantly made from metal which can rust. Water can also …
If you want to maintain a telescope, there are four criteria that must be met: keep it dry, keep it clean, keep it cool, and keep it accessible. A well maintained telescope is a long term investment.With the right care and attention, a telescope can last for the lifespan of the owner, allowing them to …
Diamonds are a girl’s best friend, or so that song says. On our planet diamonds are fairly plentiful, but in the distant worlds of Neptune and Uranus they are even more plentiful. Deep within Uranus and Neptune it rains diamonds, or at least, so it is suspected. Astronomers and Physicists have believed this to be the …
Measuring the temperature in space is much more complicated than simply using a thermometer. This is because temperature can only be a ‘meaningful figure’ when heat can be properly transferred from one body to another.Measuring the temperature in space is tricky because the density of particles is very low, despite the fact that their temperatures …
Space and time go hand in hand, right? Well, “time is relative” as Albert Einstein once said. Just look at Einstein’s Theory of Relativity in which space and time are joined and create the fabric of the entire universe, otherwise known as “space-time.”Time is not as straightforward as you may think. Space-time is not flat. …
A series of repeated beeps that any ham radio operator with a big enough rig could hear, changed the course of the twentieth century and left an indelible mark on human history. On the Fourth of October, nineteen fifty seven the United States of Soviet Russia launched the first man made satellite, into low Earth orbit …
There are lots of interesting things to be learned about space, but even some things are unknown to astronauts themselves. What happens when a person dies in space is one of these things. There is no official plan in place to suggest what would happen following these events, and it would be taken care of …
