Sentences with phrase «small telescopes»

The cluster can easily be seen in small telescopes, but is hard to find without visual aids even on a clear night.

C / 2016 M1 (PANSTARRS): A morning comet visible in small telescopes This comet begins the month in Aquila at magnitude 11.4.

The combination of small telescopes optimized for SZE observations and large correlator bandwidth make this system roughly 100 times more sensitive than the previous SZE system on the OVRO (10.4 m dishes) and BIMA (6.1 m dishes) telescopes.

Assume the responsibility for purchasing, instrumenting, and operating small telescopes needed for their students and faculty.

Have a look for yourself: a comparison of the predictions below (such as «visible in small telescopes») to the magnitude of each comet shows just how poor an indicator the magnitude alone really is.

Fifty years ago nobody thought you could or should build an array of 50 small telescopes.

The Irvin Marvin Winer Memorial Mobile Observatory, Inc. (Winer Observatory) was incorporated in 1983 as a 501 (c)(3) non-profit public charity to perform basic research in astronomy, provide educational outreach programs, and provide site and maintenance services for small telescopes through cooperative agreements with other astronomical institutions.

Open cluster Messier 23 (M23, NGC 6494) is another glorious sight for small telescopes and binoculars in the summer Milky Way.

The Hungarian - made Automated Telescope Network (HATNet) Exoplanet Survey is a geographically distributed network of 7 small telescopes optimized for detecting transiting exoplanets.

Kamuela, HI — Combining observations from the world's largest telescopes with small telescopes used by amateur astronomers, a team of scientists discovered that the large main - belt asteroid (87) Sylvia has a complex interior, thanks to the presence of two moons orbiting the main asteroid, and probably linked to the way the multiple system was formed.

Visible in even small telescopes at the southern edge of the Virgo cluster of galaxies, the Sombrero Galaxy is a spiral galaxy more massive than the Milky Way seen nearly edge - on from a distance of about 28 million light years away.

In the fall, after the comet swings back around the sun, it may be visible to southern hemisphere viewers using small telescopes.

Next they ruled out a false positive, usually caused by an eclipsing binary - star system in the background, with two relatively small telescopes on the ground, which offer better spatial resolution than COROT does.

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

These stars are too faint for TESS's small telescopes to see, but they could give the JWST valuable targets, says Michaël Gillon of the University of Liège in Belgium, which is leading the project.

That won't be a problem for PLATO, which will use 34 separate small telescopes to observe a wide field of view in order to monitor large numbers of bright, relatively nearby stars.

About 4,500 light - years away in the direction of the constellation Monoceros, the nebula is large enough to be visible through small telescopes; if it were bright enough in the visible spectrum it could be seen by the naked eye, occupying several times as much of the sky as the full moon.

But Kilpatrick doubted that the small telescopes he relied on for observing supernovae, which tend to be very bright, would be sensitive enough to really play a role in detecting the weaker signals that would likely emerge from a neutron - star merger.

«I thought [that the discovery of neutron - star mergers] would happen eventually, but I wasn't sure to what extent our collaboration using small telescopes could contribute to the field,» he says.

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.

In the fall of 2007 David Charbonneau of Harvard began deploying a network of small telescopes in Arizona that will be focused on detecting transiting super-Earths in the habitable zones of red dwarf stars.

Ever since LIGO announced the first gravitational - wave event in early 2016, networks of small telescopes around the world have been poised to detect an «optical counterpart.»

The basin is surrounded by grooves and gashes, large enough to be seen with even small telescopes from Earth, created by rocks blasted out of the crater when it was formed.

Images obtained by observers in other countries using small telescopes were also used in the study.

[3] These comparatively small telescopes, equipped with suitable spectrographs, are powerful tools for this kind of research.

On July 17, 2017, astronomers hunkered down beside dozens of small telescopes positioned outside Comodoro Rivadavia, Argentina.

The star, Antares B, is 100 times dimmer than Antares and can be made out just to its west with a small telescope in steady air.

In May 2016, members of the Belgian TRAPPIST team announced their small telescope had turned up three potentially habitable planets orbiting a star just 40 light - years away.

We borrowed a tiny, broken - down old dome with a small telescope at Lick Observatory, 30 miles from Ames.

Also, last May Debra Fischer of San Francisco State University began training a small telescope in Chile on Alpha Centauri, a pair of sunlike stars that are the closest ones to Earth.

Or by nature itself: there is a chance that Alpha Centauri's stars are surrounded by significantly more light - scattering dust than our own Sun, which could prevent a small telescope from seeing any planets.

ESO's Very Large Telescope was immediately called into action to measure the object's orbit, brightness and colour more accurately than smaller telescopes could achieve.

If nearly every sunlike star has an Earth, we might find life around a relatively nearby star, with a relatively small telescope.

The CubeSat mission, called the Colorado Student Space Weather Experiment (CSSWE), housed a small telescope to measure the flux of solar energetic protons and Earth's radiation belt electrons.

Swelling up every 408 days like a monstrous red beach ball, it ranges from being a target for a small telescope to easy naked - eye visibility.

But the small telescope may be better at looking even farther into the past than the larger arrays, allowing it to look at hydrogen atoms heated by the very first stars, Bowman says.

«You see,» he said, «the light from a distant star will be bent as it passes the nearer star and the effect will be a great brightening that anyone can see with a small telescope.»

The ringed planet is bright and high in the sky all month, lovely through a small telescope.

«By combining seven smaller telescopes to synthesize the accuracy of one large one,» says Michael Shao, the scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory who heads the SIM team, «we're going to be able to search the nearest 40 or so stars to find planets that are from one to two times the mass of Earth and that are in a habitable zone around their stars.»

In March 2014, they announced to the world that their small telescope at the South Pole had uncovered possible signs of gravitational waves produced within a trillionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second of the Big Bang — potentially opening a window into a new regime of physics.

She and Joner are working on a way to use smaller telescopes that have the abilities to observe different active galaxies.

Gehrels says that his team has now been tasked to look at a third concept, with a price cap of $ 850 million, that will require a smaller telescope and cut the probe's capabilities.

The double asteroid 90 Antiope has come into sharp new detail, thanks to observations from the European Space Agency's Very Large Telescope and other smaller telescopes, which spied on the pair as it waltzed around the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

In these words, Juan Valderrama y Aguilar, a 17 - year - old amateur astronomer, described what he saw from Madrid on 10 September 1886 with his small telescope, with an aperture of just 6.6 cm and equipped with a neutral density filter to dim the solar light.

The smaller the telescope, the easier it is to get into space.

This is most likely because the Messier objects are visible to anyone with a pair of binoculars or a small telescope.

While readily accessible with a small telescope, it is not visible to the naked eye.

Therefore, smaller telescopes with a much wider field of view are used to detect asteroids.

M51 is easily photographed and viewed by smaller telescopes.