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Magnification is used to enhance an object’s size so that it can be viewed with the human eye to assess it for a number of reasons. This could be for scientific research, geographical investigation, or purely from a visual perspective. We often get asked what the easiest way to calculate total magnification is. This article […]
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Immediately Recognizable, Always Unforgettable: Saturn Saturn is a gas giant planet named after the Roman god of agriculture and harvest. It is the second-largest planet in our solar system, with a diameter about 9 times that of Earth, slightly smaller than Jupiter, which is about 11 times the size of Earth. Saturn is less dense
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When you step outside and look at the stars in the night sky, chances are you imagine how amazing it would be to be able to see more of them. By owning a telescope, you can drastically increase how much you see behind the curtain of the sky. It’s no surprise that understanding telescopes is
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If you’ve been shopping around for telescopes, chances are you’ve seen that some have smartphone telescope adapters included. These make it very convenient for you to take pictures of the celestial objects that you view when looking at the sky. How do smartphone telescope adapters work? These adapters are clamped onto the eyepiece of the
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All telescopes – and indeed, most optical devices – work by collecting light at the objective lens or primary mirror, and then converging these light rays into a spot called the focal plane. Particularly with eyepieces, it is basically inevitable that any telescope will have aberrations at the focal plane in some fashion, and they
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Saturn is a gas giant planet named after the Roman god of agriculture and harvest. It is the second-largest planet in our solar system, with a diameter about nine times that of Earth, slightly smaller than Jupiter, which is about 11 times the size of Earth. Saturn is less dense than Jupiter, however, possessing 95
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