Sentences with phrase «telescope deep sky»

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✔ I want a beginner telescope: Refractor or Reflector ✔ I want a rugged telescope that requires little or no maintenance: Refractor ✔ I want to also observe objects on earth (e.g. birds): Refractor or Compound ✔ I want to view faint, deep sky objects: Reflector or Compound ✔ I want the best image quality: Reflector or Compound ✔ I want the biggest bang for my buck (high value): Reflector ✔ I want to do astrophotography: Compound

Another lead comes from the Chandra Deep Field South, an image created by a space - based x-ray telescope that observed the same patch of sky for a cumulative 81 days.

With its huge corrected field of view and specially designed 256 - megapixel camera, OmegaCAM, the VST can produce deep images of large areas of sky quickly, leaving the much larger telescopes — like ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT)-- to explore the details of individual objects.

These have been seen in deep images of the sky made with the largest optical telescopes.

«IceCube is a wonderful and unique astrophysical telescope — it is deployed deep in the Antarctic ice but looks over the entire Universe, detecting neutrinos coming through the Earth from the northern skies, as well as from around the southern skies,» said Vladimir Papitashvili of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Polar Programs.

Among the most used by amateur astronomers are The New Cosmos: Answering Astronomy's Big Questions, Comets: Visitors from Deep Space, The Universe from Your Backyard, Deep - Sky Observing with Small Telescopes, and Stars and Galaxies.

The KiDS analysis of data from the VST is an important step but future telescopes are expected to take even wider and deeper surveys of the sky.

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.

The new telescope took an 11 - day - long exposure — a record amount of time for Chandra — of a blank patch of sky about half the size of the full moon, called Deep Field South.

Its bright illumination makes stars and planets appear less conspicuous to naked - eye observers, and washes out delicate details in deep - sky objects for those peering through telescopes.

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.

In a cosmic «call to arms,» astronomer proposes new deep - space telescope to scan the sky for signs of life.

«NIRES is expected to be one of the most efficient single - object, near - infrared spectrographs on an eight to ten - meter telescope, designed to study explosive, deep sky phenomena such as supernovae and gamma ray bursts, a capability that is in high demand.»

The same deep sky survey, conducted with the Subaru telescope in Hawaii and the Dark Energy Survey Camera in Chile, has also turned up about a dozen other objects around 80 to 90 AU from the sun.

A research team has recently added one more member to the list, by announcing the detection of an exoplanet at a distance of approximately 13,000 light - years away, which was spotted by NASA's Spitzer space telescope in conjunction with a ground - based, deep - sky survey.