• Low cost telescope digital setting circles

    Low cost telescope digital setting circles

    This I have to try! Only needs a includes an AS5600 magnetic rotation Hall effect sensor, an ESP32 -less than $100 worth of parts, along with compatibility SkySafari and other apps. Find an article here at Hack a Day More details at Thingverse.

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  • Smart Telescopes in 2024

    Smart Telescopes in 2024

    This is a blog article I wrote for my work, The Binocular and Telescope shop or BINTEL to our friends. There’s lots of new tech and products coming out and it’s a great time to get into astronomy or rediscover your love for the night sky. Full article can be found here It’s been an…

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  • Water found deep under the surface of Mars

    Water found deep under the surface of Mars

    Mars is known to have had lots of surface water in the past. No doubt some of it evaporated into space, but the rest? Only one way to go – down. Now scientists using data from older data from the InSight lander have found evidence for cracks in the Martian surface filled with water. The…

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  • Planet 9 – is there something BIG in the outer Solar System?

    Planet 9 – is there something BIG in the outer Solar System?

    Note: A post from my work blog – original here. There’s something strange going on with the planets on the outer edge of the Solar System…. For centuries, astronomers have been using slight oddities in the motion of  known planets to uncover other planets. Probably the most famous of these was the discovery of the…

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  • Astronomers closing on a  complete picture for how planets form

    Astronomers closing on a complete picture for how planets form

    Newborn stars are surrounded only by a featureless disk. Debris disks persist for hundreds of millions of years. So when do planets form? And do planets form around all stars. When we look at the planets in our Solar System, including our own planet Earth, we find that they formed nearly at the same time…

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  • RIP Peter Higgs

    RIP Peter Higgs

    Famed physicist who lent his name to the Higgs boson has passed away. One of the major triumphs in particle physics of recent years was the search for the Higgs Boson – the fundamental particle associated with the Higgs field, a field that gives mass to other fundamental particles such as electrons and quarks. A…

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  • Fresh water and key conditions for life appeared on Earth half a billion years earlier than we thought

    Fresh water and key conditions for life appeared on Earth half a billion years earlier than we thought

    A new study published in Nature Geoscience provides the first evidence of fresh water and dry land on Earth by 4 billion years ago – pushing back the conditions for life to have existed on our planet hundreds of millions of years. More here.

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  • Remember the Supernova in 1987 in the LMC? Well, there’s news….

    Remember the Supernova in 1987 in the LMC? Well, there’s news….

    Another article I’ve written for BINTEL – 23rd Feb 2023: What we see in the night sky seem timeless and eternal – things change on the timescale of millions or billions or years. Even the rare, fleeting or transient events like supernova will often take hundreds of years for the remnants to be seen.  But….. Back…

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  • Martian lake confirmation brings hope sediment samples may reveal past life

    Martian lake confirmation brings hope sediment samples may reveal past life

    26th Jan – 2024 – New research published Friday offers hope that the sediment samples picked up by the Mars rover Perseverance could reveal traces of life — if it ever existed on the Red Planet. The rover already has confirmed an ancient lake on Mars. The new research published in Science Advances shows the Jezero Crater, where Perseverance…

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  • The first 3D map of magnetic fields in our galaxy explains star-forming regions

    The first 3D map of magnetic fields in our galaxy explains star-forming regions

    A team of astronomers including those from the University of Tokyo have created the first-ever map of magnetic field structures within a spiral arm of our Milky Way galaxy. Previous studies on galactic magnetic fields only gave a very general picture, but the new study reveals that magnetic fields in the spiral arms of our…

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  • Astronomers Accidentally Discover Dark Primordial Galaxy

    Astronomers Accidentally Discover Dark Primordial Galaxy

    Is this the faintest galaxy ever found? 350 unique galaxies were studied for this survey, and astronomers used several major radio telescopes around the world, including the National Science Foundation’s Green Bank Telescope, the Arecibo Telescope, and the Nançay Radio Telescope. “The goal was to determine the gas and dynamic masses of these ultra-diffuse galaxies.…

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  • New Smart Telescopes and Binoculars at CES 2024

    New Smart Telescopes and Binoculars at CES 2024

    My new blog article over at BINTEL! 10th Jan 2024: Some amazing new products launch in recent days at the CES event in the USA – and they’ll be arriving at BINTEL in the near future! Here’s an overview of two new “Smart” Gizmos – the Celestron Origin Smart Telescope and the Swarovski AX Visio 10X32…

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