Sentences with phrase «camera is a telescope»

The Orion 52175 Solar System Camera is a telescope mountable camera that's great for someone who is just getting into astrophotography.

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The store is always packed with customers, browsing through hundreds of varieties of camera bags with every possible combination of lens compartments; the room full of telescopes; and, of course, enough lenses to burn all the ants in the Sahara to a crisp.

The eyes of cephalopods, fish, amphibians, and snakes usually have fixed lens shapes, and focusing vision is achieved by telescoping the lens - similar to how a camera focuses.

On Sept. 20, 2016, Buso of Rosario, Argentina, was testing a new camera on his 16 - inch telescope by taking a series of short - exposure photographs of the spiral galaxy NGC 613, which is about 80 million light years from Earth and located within the southern constellation Sculptor.

The Orion 52031 is a good camera for astrophotography if you're looking for one that mounts to your telescope.

One of the best things about this camera is that it fits into any 1.25 - inch telescope focuser which makes it really versatile.

Yes, it is designed for DSLR photo cameras but works for most telescope lenses as well.

The end result was a 2,320 - pound spacecraft equipped with an outsize digital camera — made of 22,000 parts — and a 55 - inch telescope, the largest NASA has ever launched beyond Earth orbit.

Observations obtained a month later by members of the Planetary Sciences Group using the PlanetCam camera developed by this team and fitted to the 2.2 - m telescope at the Calar Alto Observatory in Almería (Spain) enabled the speed of this atmospheric structure to be confirmed.

One really exciting thing on the horizon is a new camera called the Gemini Planet Imager, which will be attached to the Gemini South telescope in Chile.

The first camera to be completed and go on the telescope is going to find all the low - hanging fruit.

«You might think that building a big telescope on the Earth could be substitute for sending a camera to a planet,» Loeb says.

CCDs are standard issue in professional telescopes and hobby astrophotography cameras.

Philippe hopes people will be watching at home on the evening news; television cameras will film KEO through astronomical telescopes.

Using a mirror 28 feet wide — five times as big as the Pan-STARRS telescopes — and a camera the size of a pickup truck, it will be able to survey the entire sky in three days.

The European Space Agency's Gaia space telescope has loose fibres that are scattering too much light into its camera, making it harder to map the Milky Way

Built and tested at Fermilab, the camera is now mounted on the 4 - meter Victor M. Blanco telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in the Andes Mountains in Chile.

This camera is permanently mounted at the MPG / ESO 2.2 - metre telescope at the La Silla Observatory.

This rich view of a tapestry of colorful stars was captured by the Wide Field Imager (WFI) camera, on the MPG / ESO 2.2 - meter telescope at ESO's La Silla Observatory in Chile.

«The overall theme, first with the Allen Telescope Array and now with the VLA, is to use these interferometers as high - speed cameras, taking the sensitive imaging capabilty of the telescope, cranking up the data rate and improving our algorithms to get access to these millisecond time - scale transients,» he said.

That is when telescope operators will install its full - size camera, which at 1.4 billion pixels will be the largest camera on any ground - based telescope.

The images were captured by NASA's Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC), a four megapixel CCD camera and telescope on the DSCOVR satellite orbiting 1 million miles from Camera (EPIC), a four megapixel CCD camera and telescope on the DSCOVR satellite orbiting 1 million miles from camera and telescope on the DSCOVR satellite orbiting 1 million miles from Earth.

The KELT North telescope in Arizona and its twin, KELT South in South Africa, are no more powerful than high - end digital cameras, but they've proven that small telescopes can make big planet discoveries.

While most of the activity they've seen has been linked to the more than 160 volcanoes previously identified by camera - laden probes either orbiting or whizzing past Jupiter, the telescopes have identified volcanism in one region that had never experienced it before, the team reports today at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society's Division for Planetary Sciences in Reno, Nevada.

Gaia was launched in December 2013 and has been scanning the skies ever since with its gigapixel camera, despite minor problems with stray light getting in and some recurring contamination of ice on the two main telescope mirrors.

Using large telescopes with wide - field cameras, the teams are starting to rule out parts of the sky in which they think the planet lurks.

The densest part of the coma — the inner region near the nucleus — is the part of a comet that's visible to telescopes and cameras as a big fuzzy ball.

A team from the London - based Open Space Agency (OSA) has produced the Ultrascope, a downloadable telescope design that can be generated by a 3D printer, be controlled by simple robotics, and captures images using the camera on a smartphone.

The key to making this delicate measurement doable by amateurs is the availability of modern digital cameras combined with relatively small telescopes.

The 800 - megapixel image comprises nearly 1,200 photos, but no high - powered telescopes were involved — just the dark, clear skies of the Chilean desert and Canary Islands and a Nikon D3 digital camera.

Whereas those were easy to spot, Cooke suggests pairing a telescope with a charge - coupled device camera for best views of future comets (although he did say that binoculars will suffice for brighter ones).

This rich view of an array of colorful stars and gas was captured by the Wide Field Imager (WFI) camera, on the MPG / ESO 2.2 - meter telescope at ESO's La Silla Observatory in Chile.

It could be integrated into standard cameras, microscopes and even telescopes.

The initial discovery of this quasar (given the identity J1342 +0928) came to light thanks to the mining of three large area surveys: the DECam Legacy Survey (DECaLS) that is being carried out with the Dark Energy Camera on the National Science Foundations Blanco 4 - m telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, NASAs Wide - field Infrared Survey Explorer (ALLWISE), and the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS) Large Area Survey.

Optical telescopes are used for astronomy and in many non-astronomical instruments including theodolites, transits, spotting scopes, monoculars, binoculars, camera lenses and spyglasses.

The camera is scheduled to begin its search this month with the Pan-Starrs-1 telescope in Haleakala, Hawaii.

The reconnaissance satellites under discussion are essentially small orbiting telescopes aimed at the Earth, attached to a video camera that transmits images back to a ground station.

«Telescopes on Earth and the Hubble Space Telescope in orbit around it can still do far better than us at present, but we are still a long way away from Mars,» says Nicolas Thomas, the camera's principal investigator at the CSH.

It's important to note that you should never look at the sun through an unfiltered camera, telescope or binoculars, regardless of whether you're wearing eclipse glasses.

More intensive studies of Pluto begin in the spring, when the cameras and spectrometers aboard New Horizons will be able to provide image resolutions higher than the most powerful telescopes on Earth.

For this study the researchers used images taken from Earth between 2008 and 2014; they used, among others, the astronomical cameras PlanetCam (developed by the Planetary Sciences Group itself) and Astralux, fitted to the telescopes of the Calar Alto Observatory in Almería (Spain); in addition, they used the very high resolution images obtained by t he Cassini spacecraft, which has been orbiting Saturn since 2004.

Astronomers are able to identify these types of planet - birthing disks, because the star heats up the surrounding dust, which affects the way it looks using a telescope with an infrared camera.

This image was observed with the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) gri - band filters mounted on the Blanco 4 - meter telescope on Dec. 28, 2015, around the time when the supernova reached its peak luminosity.

Sheppard and Trujillo, along with David Tholen of the University of Hawaii, are conducting the largest, deepest survey for objects beyond Neptune and the Kuiper Belt and have covered nearly 10 percent of the sky to date using some of the largest and most advanced telescopes and cameras in the world, such as the Dark Energy Camera on the NOAO 4 - meter Blanco telescope in Chile and the Japanese Hyper Suprime Camera on the 8 - meter Subaru telescope in Hawaii.

Volunteer observers will deploy 68 identical telescopes and digital camera systems along the path of totality in an eclipse relay — as soon as one site's two minutes of totality are up, the next site's will begin.

There are also two cameras - one which can achieve image resolutions 10 times greater than that of even the largest Earth - based telescope, and a second which can detect an object 50 times fainter than anything visible from Earth.

The camera was constructed and tested at the U.S. Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and is now mounted on the 4 - meter Victor M. Blanco telescope at the National Optical Astronomy Observatory's Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile.

At the core of the advanced technologies aboard the telescope is a Near Infrared Camera.

The composite picture is a seamless blend of ultra-sharp images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope combined with the wide view of the Mosaic Camera on the National Science Foundation's 0.9 - meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory near Tucson, Ariz..

Not all of these methods require powerful telescopes and expensive instrumentation: in fact, the most exciting currently known exoplanetary system TRAPPIST - 1 — which hosts three earth - sized planets in its habitable zone — was found with a relatively small research telescope equipped with a standard astronomical camera.