[Chris] recently got his hands on an old telescope. While this small refractor with an altitude-azimuth mount is sufficient for taking a gander at big objects in our solar system, high-end telescopes ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rockford company celebrates construction of largest telescope mount in the U.S. Ingersoll Machine Tools on Tuesday began ...

On March 15, 2012, the Large Binocular Telescope (LBT) made its first scientific results public; 25 years had passed since the project was first presented, but the wait was worth it. Among other ...

Southern Arizona’s dry air, dark skies, and plentiful mountain peaks are prime conditions for the many world-class telescopes that dot the region. These conditions, unfortunately, come with ...

A correction to an earlier version of this article has been appended to the end of the article. A huge slab of ice and snow slides off the huge domed roof of the Great Refractor telescope at Mount ...

[GregO29] had a 10″ GoTo telescope but at 70lbs, it wasn’t really portable. And so he did what any self-respecting CNC enthusiast would do, he put his CNC skills to work to make an 8″ Newtonian ...

Dating back to 1904, Mount Wilson Observatory was founded by Dr. George Ellery Hale in the mountains of Pasadena where some of the world's oldest telescopes are housed. When Hale established the ...

I don’t know who said it first, but it bears repeating that the best telescope is the one that gets used the most. Many of you are familiar with different types of telescopes – reflectors are the ones ...