I am thinking about buying a telescope but I do not know the difference between these.
I want to use my telescope for just, looking at saturn, mars and other planets, maybe close stars to see what I can see and the space station and satellites!
the same difference between a basball bat designed for hitting vs. one designed for batting.
Like, how long did it take for you to really start to understand Astronomy and start to learn a lot about it? Also, at what age did you begin to develop an interest in astronomy?
I was 16 when I first got interested in astronomy. Terry Dickinson says it takes about a year to become comfortable with the sky and its motions: it helps to see the same constellations come around again.
The very latest in the Celestron line is the Celestron EdgeHD – an Aplanatic Schmidt optical system that produces pinpoint star images all the way to the edge of the field. Some optical systems currently on the market may produce coma free images. But there is a difference…. the optical difference. Not only is the Celestron EdgeHD telescope coma free, but it also has a built in field flattener to ensure sharp focus all the way to the edge of the field, producing true Astrograph quality images. This results in pinpoint, High Definition star images throughout your astro photograph! These superior features combined with the Celestron CGE Pro and CGEM mounts make the new Celestron EdgeHD series the new gold standard in Astro Imaging and the system of choice for the serious astro-imagers.
Celestron EdgeHD Telescopes are available for order at OPT – www.optcorp.com !
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Every camera shop I’ve been in sells telescopes by the door. What’s up with that?
Telescopes and binoculars have specialized lenses like cameras have.
I am currently going into my senior year in college with a major in math and minor in statistics. I have been told when thinking about grad school that I don’t have to limit myself to studying math, that I can go into different fields having math as a background. If this is true (is it?) then would studying astronomy be possible?
No, you can’t enter an astronomy grad program right now. They expect the equivalent of a physics major, and almost all of them require the physics GRE, covering material you would have learned in intro physics I and II, modern physics, classical mechanics, electricity & magnetism, thermo & statistical mechanics, math physics I and II, optics, and quantum mechanics. Surprisingly, Astronomy isn’t required, mostly just physics (and you’ll need some computer science as well) but astronomy helps a lot. Now, you could apply to an astronomy grad school, but you will need to take a lot of these physics classes first or find a low-ranked program willing to let you catch up before starting the masters work (you’ll need to do the masters work before starting the PhD even if you enter a PhD program with a bachelors).
The Sun and stars emits radio waves — not just visible and infrared light. In the 1930s, Karl Jansky built the first devise to “listen” to the sun, collecting radio waves from far off stars and focusing them onto a detector. This invention provided astronomers with a completely different view of the Universe — prompting the discovery of radio stars, quasars, and black holes.
This video features a model of the Algonquin Radio Observatory (ARO), located in Ontario’s Algonquin Provincial Park. In 1968, astronomers combined signals from the ARO with those from the Dominion Astrophysical Radio Observatory in Penticton, British Columbia forming a new instrument called a Long Baseline Interferometer.
To learn more about Astronomy and Telescopes, visit the Canada Science and Technology Museum.
http://www.sciencetech.technomuses.ca/
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Members of Association of Amateur Astronomers seen enjoying during the Sky party which was held on 12/07/2010 at Citizen English School, Nanjangud.
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I don’t know what professional astronomers will say about it but I think we are not going to see Earth and rest of solar system unless with powerful Telescopes that can filter Oort Cloud that may block the view.
We will be able to see the solar system, and we can see through the Oort cloud. We do it all the time, from Earth. How do you think astronomers take pictures of stars light years away?
The Oort cloud is not as dense as you may think.
Out side of the solar system, we might now be able to see the inner planets, as they are too small and too close to the bright glare of the sun, but we will see the sun, and the outer planets (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune)
I am taking a class on astronomy next year. It is the first experience I will have in this science but I’m confident the class will be pretty advanced. I want to go into it knowing a bit about the subject. If you know a book that would cover the basics, or at the least provide good insight into what I may learn, please let me know!
It’s hard to recommend a book without knowing what your math background is. Introductory Astronomy classes are usually accessible to high school students, even at the college level – they rarely require more than algebra and a little trig, and there are literally hundreds of introductory textbooks out there.
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