Nestled in the rolling green hills of the English countryside is an important site in global astronomical history. But now, ...

The South Florida Science Center recently added a new ten-inch telescope and turned to [Andres Paris] and his brother to replace the hand-cranked dome door system. They turned to an Arduino along ...

The world's largest digital camera made in the Bay Area has now been installed in Chile. The camera is the size of a car and ...

The Estes Valley Astronomical Society is offering a free public lecture Saturday, March 29th at the Estes Park Memorial ...

The 24-inch Boller & Chivens f/8 Cassegrain was installed in the dome of Sommers-Bausch Observatory in 1973. Originally equipped for visual viewing, 4x5 film photography, photomultiplier photometry, ...

The Clark Telescope resides in the "equatorial room" on the second floor of the Observatory, and is accessed via a spiral oak staircase. The original iron dome weighed two tons, yet could be rotated ...

Join us for our Science Under the Dome monthly live talk series ... CalTech, and Mt. Wilson Observatory, and the heart of Hollywood, he developed a deep passion for both the cosmos and the silver ...

American astronomy thrives today largely because of the underpinnings achieved by John Quincy Adams in his far-reaching ...

Rainbow over Herstmonceux in 1981. The observatory dome in the picture used to house Isaac Newton telescope, which is now situated at La Palma in the Canary Islands. | Credit: Barry Shimmon ...