Sentences with phrase «faintest objects in the sky»

All seven mirrors combined gather less than one - hundredth as much light as one 30 - foot - wide mirror, meaning they won't pull in the faintest objects in the sky.

It is one of the faintest objects in the sky, discovered using a 25» Schmidt camera in 1952 by G.A Shajn and V.E. Hase at the Crimean Astrophyical Observatory at Simeis (in the former U.S.S.R).

Not exact matches

We train our telescopes on small patches of sky for long spells, trying to drink in as much faint light from distant objects as possible.

The term is a misnomer: Observing a number of vaguely round, cloudlike objects in the sky during the late 18th century, Sir William Herschel thought they resembled faint planets.

So Jewitt and Luu carried out two parallel surveys: they used the Palomar Observatory's Schmidt telescope equipped with conventional glass photographic plates to scan large areas of the sky for the very faintest objects, while also watching a narrow field of view in the plane of the planets for rare but slightly brighter objects using MIT's 1.3 - metre telescope fitted with a CCD.

This planetary nebula is certainly the most impressive object of its kind in the sky, as the angular diameter of the luminous body is nearly 6 arc minutes, with a faint halo extensing out to over 15», half the apparent diameter of the Moon (Millikan 1974).

It is impossible to get a good photograph of the entire cluster because the galaxies are faint objects scattered across 15 degrees of the sky, and a large angle photograph would be swamped by thousands of foreground stars in our own galaxy.

By the second night, however, the object had faded in brightness to 30 million times fainter than the limit of visibility with the naked eye in Earth's night sky (Bhargavi et al, 2000).