Sentences with phrase «point telescopes»

Wander around and speak to the astronomers who will show you where to point your telescopes in hope of seeing a galaxy system or watch one of the Tesla Coil demonstrations (a sort of caged lightning effect), sure to be one of your most memorable experiences.

«What we're doing is trying to find the best places to point the telescopes, the most likely to support a habitable surface,» said Michael Way.

Another of his recent work, on how to strategically point telescopes to find electromagnetic counterparts to gravitational wave sources, was adapted for observations by the Very Large Array radio telescope in New Mexico, which successfully observed radio emission from the merger.

It seems as though every time astronomers point their telescopes at the night sky, some weird new finding forces them to revamp their theories.

Deuterium, helium, and lithium nuclei each absorb and emit light in a unique way, allowing scientists to point telescopes at I Zwicky 18 and determine the abundances of ancient nuclei very accurately.

Every scientific statement in the long run, however complicated it looks, really means something like, «I pointed the telescope to such and such a part of the sky at 2:20 A.M. on January 15th and saw soand - so,» or, «I put some of this stuff in a pot and heated it to such - and - such a temperature and it did soand - so.»

Lots of modern telescopes offer built - in computer control which automatically points the telescope to interesting objects.

The included red - dot viewfinder allows you to point the telescope quickly at any object in the sky.

It also comes with an excellent computerized hand control that allows you to automatically point your telescope to over 4,000 objects in space.

Then we pointed the telescope to the moon and snapped absolutely stunning photos and videos of it slowly moving through the field of view.

Some telescopes offer a build in computer which automatically points the telescope to interesting objects.

As astronomers presented new planetary measurements and observing techniques at the conference, Kepler engineers in California were strategizing about how to remotely repair one of two broken reaction wheels that precisely point the telescope.

A team of researchers pointed the telescope at GK Persei, an object that became a sensation in the astronomical world in 1901 when it suddenly appeared as one of the brightest stars in the sky for a few days, before gradually fading away in brightness.

That paucity of observed bursts reflects the hardest part of the FRB puzzle: guessing where to point a telescope to catch them as they happen.

By maintaining that orientation, WISE can point its telescope away from Earth and keep the sun on one side, allowing the spacecraft to be shielded from solar radiation by its sunshade.

Around Dec. 1, 1609, Italian mathematician Galileo Galilei pointed a telescope at the moon and created modern astronomy.

Exoplanets are typically discovered in one of two ways — and neither involving simply pointing a telescope in the right direction and looking.

During coarse phasing, engineers point the telescope toward a bright star and use NIRCam to find any large offsets between the mirror segments (though «large» is relative, and in this case it means mere millimeters).

They pointed the telescopes at the remnant of a supernova about 168,000 light - years away in the constellation Dorado, whose light first arrived at Earth in 1987.

But a magnificent view awaits anyone who points a telescope at M5.

By May, two of the four reaction wheels that precisely point the telescope had failed, leaving it too unstable to detect exoplanets around bright stars.

Point a telescope just 7 degrees southeast of Vega to reveal more treasures: the ghostly glowing noose of the famous Ring nebula.

Atop Kitt Peak outside Tucson, Ariz., he often points his telescope at a barren orange orb.

From that vantage point the telescope will observe a small section of the chromosphere, a violently variable region between the corona and the surface.

Even before astronomers pointed their telescopes at a dim star over Chile last June, they knew it would darken for a few seconds as an asteroid passed in front of it.

That made it less likely that the clumping might be due to an observation bias such as pointing a telescope at a particular part of the sky.

«I'll also have some time when I can say, all right, now SETI is going to decide where to point the telescope,» says Tarter.

The lucky astronomer who passes muster gets to spend a few hours or a few nights pointing the telescope at the designated objects, collecting data for the next year of desk work back home.

Every astronomy buff has favorite landmarks that he or she points the telescope toward when introducing a newbie to the wonders of the cosmos.

Engineers on the ground will point the telescope at a pre-selected active region on the sun and gather observations for some six minutes.

Point a telescope at the moon, and you might just see one looking back.

Kepler, launched in 2009, was reborn in 2014 as «K2» with a clever strategy of pointing the telescope in the plane of the Earth's orbit to stabilize the spacecraft.

In 1801, when an astronomer pointed his telescope at a seemingly star - like point of light, he probably had no idea a robotic emissary from Earth would one day be sent there.

The final instrument on board the HST are its Fine Guidance Sensors (FGSs), which point the telescope and precisely measure the positions and diameters of stars, as well as the separation of binary stars.

«Like Galileo first pointing his telescope upward, this new view of the sky will deepen our understanding of the cosmos, and lead to unexpected discoveries,» said France Cordova, director of the US National Science Foundation, which funded the work.

It was a hell of a job to point my telescope with its equatorial mount in the right direction.

L1527 is a well - known protostar (baby star) and many astronomers have pointed telescopes at it.

Lots of skilled amateurs are out there pointing their telescopes into the great beyond.

To allow simultaneous ground - based observations, flight operations engineers at Ball Aerospace and the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado in Boulder will perform a maneuver turning the spacecraft around to point the telescope in the forward velocity vector.

If one has not seen quite enough, Yuichiro Nishizawa points a telescope into the main area, although its electronics resolve the actual interior into points of light, like a night sky normally hidden by Brooklyn light pollution.

I can predict where a star will be in 10 years and point my telescope and there it will be.

Not exact matches

will have to be assumed and telescoped; but I will concentrate on what I think are critical questions — critical in the sense that they represent, at least in my opinion, points on which greater clarity is required if the community of Christ's discipleship is to move into the post-Christendom future with something like apostolic confidence.

Pertinent to this latter point, Stanislav Grof comments, «It does not seem inappropriate and exaggerated to compare [the] potential significance [of LSD] for psychiatry and psychology to that of the microscope for medicine or the telescope for astronomy» (RHU 32f).

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Astronomers point ALMA at Titan to calibrate the telescope because the moon has known brightness levels, says Palmer, who also works at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md..

That began to change when one of Piazzi's rivals, the astronomer William Herschel, noted that Ceres only appeared as a point of light in his telescope rather than a resolved disk, like the other known planets.

That finding kicked off an astronomical free - for - all: «Basically every telescope pointed at this thing,» says LIGO member Daniel Holz of the University of Chicago.