That camera, called LSSTCam (the telescope was originally called the Large Scale Synoptic Telescope), has 21 times the field ...

The telescope will survey the night sky for exactly ... So we basically create a movie of the southern sky for a decade,” ...

The telescope will catalogue billions of new objects and produce a new map of the entire night sky every three days with the ...

A little-known chapter of the Hubble Space Telescope’s history is a reminder of the risks of looking at the sun ...

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The telescope’s massive digital camera was built to take a lot of photos of the sky, in quick succession, for a very long ...

Included with the telescope is a tripod, finderscope, the Starlight Camera DS1 with 4x digital zoom (manufactured by dash cam-maker Novatek), solar lens, remote control, bag, and star chart ...

When Pagan and DePasquale first receive the images, they appear in black and white. The colors are added to the image later, ...

The magnificent Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31), stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way, and ...

Dedicated t-adapters can also connect your camera to your telescope. “This essentially turns your telescope into your camera's lens,” Naz explains. How to take photos with your phone Not ready ...

Scientists from Chile have used both the Blanco telescope (with its predecessor camera MOSAIC II) and the Gemini South telescope, one half of the International Gemini Observatory, operated by NSF ...