what it's like to look through giant binoculars www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2Q_...
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what it's like to look through giant binoculars www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2Q_...
Venus v M44
Follow Venus the next few mornings, and you can see an unusual sight, as the planet transits (passes in front of) the open star cluster Messier 44 (Praesepe) in the heart of the constellation Cancer. Brilliant -4 magnitude Venus nicks the +4th magnitude cluster on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday morning.
I designed the biggest binoculars in the world (that you can buy) and they're for looking at outer space 🔭 🌌. Early access is a big step for our nano-scale mom-and-pop business to bring this model to life! www.analogsky.co/bloom
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Steve Goodman not even close
Cool what software is this
Big telescopes belong on Earth! A thrilling day for astronomy and humanity. Amazing what public funding can do. Where are the privately-funded pictures like this?
Just thinking of the Harvard computer women a century ago, who looked at images of the universe like this by eye to make discoveries. They revolutionized astronomy, and Rubin definitely will too!
Also, wow how excited would Henrietta Leavitt and Williamina Flemming be to see this! 🤩
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CAD drawing of 200mm astronomy binoculars.
CAD drawing of 200mm astronomy binoculars.
Metal frame parts of 200mm astronomy binoculars.
Big binoculars incoming! 200mm parabolic mirror objectives. This is the first time mirror binoculars have been available since JMI stopped production. 2" focusers, IPD from 49-85mm. The optics all fit in carry-on luggage size. members.analogsky.co for the journey from CAD to first prototype!
Pretty! It's a nice one to watch rise in the east this time of year. For some reason the big open clusters surrounding Ophiuchus are not that well-known.
top-down CAD diagram of 200mm binocular telescope, called "Dream", from Analog Sky
3 weeks to the first prototype of the world's largest commercially-available binocular telescope
cad image of 200mm binocular telescope in design phase
big binoculars progress
Mercury's elongation (distance from the Sun in the sky) is large enough for safe viewing before sunrise. Fun thing to see if you have to be awake in the morning
If you get a chance, I'd like to know how she keeps Chris Butler's toenails in her nylons without tearing them. Is it like a little sachet or maybe a Down to Earth reusable tea bag?
I love how YouTube gives you a panel of the comments you haven't replied to but seemingly no way to dismiss comments you don't *want* to reply to lol
The American Astronomical Society — the largest organization of professional astronomers in the country — has put out a statment about Trump's proposed fatal cuts to NASA science.
aas.org/press/aas-st...
Just reposting this so it's easy to find later to show my 12-year-old daughter. Sometimes I'm embarrassed I was so excited about the internet as a teenager in the 90s thinking we could share the collective knowledge of humanity when this was pretty much the whole point the whole time.
Can't wait to find out what my next shipment of lenses from China is going to cost in a couple weeks. Can I spin a wheel maybe?
Getting closer. The lenses might be $1000 each by the end of the month but hey.
Not sure why WKUK official reuploaded this a couple days ago, somebody better keep an eye on those guys www.youtube.com/watch?v=KivC...
With tariffs making real Japanese anime unaffordable, your only option is American-made crap like this
Free on patreon 👇
CAD view of Analog Sky Magic LVL 2 Binocular Telescope design process.
left hand side coming together
I'm always saying this
spring coat
Life Hack: The night sky offers endless entertainment—meteor showers, eclipses, and planetary alignments - all at no cost. Except for a jacket. Maybe some bug spray. Possibly a chair.
Half a 50mm binocular telescope, Analog Sky's Magic LVL 2 prototype. 76 degree viewing angle, simultaneous objective focus, 56mm minimum IPD (lowest in the world for 2" eyepieces), built-in PiFinder plate solving finder, green laser pointer, 3V lighting, and hopefully APO Petzval optics. The prototype lays on its side on a chair in the sunshine.
We're definitely in the Hyper Light Drifter soundtrack part of the year. I guess a neon post apocalypse is kind of a metaphor for spring.
Alternative: Let your ADHD run rampant, get some space binoculars and just roam around until you bump into something interesting. When you get bored with that, roam around and find something else. (Sorry, just pointing out there are two wolves in everyone looking at the night sky lol)
In addition to damaging local habitat, this is polluting the atmosphere with aluminum oxide. But if a exploding SpaceX payload was ever a nuclear-powered probe, this would rain down deadly radioactivity over everyone below. No profit-motive space companies, no nuclear space probes.
👇The Mars #EuropaClipper gravity assist is happening right now! Locate Mars to wave at Clipper as it flys by on its 5yr journey to Jupiter & the frozen ice moon of Europa.
At the moment Mars is an easy-to-spot triangle with the bright Gemini stars of Castor and Pollux! 🔭🧪🛰️
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