Amateur Astronomy as a Hobby

Star Atlases and Planispheres w/ Wil Tirion

14th May, 2019 - 876 views

Star atlases are an essential tool for use in amateur astronomy. Although most people use them in digital or App form, there is still room on our bookshelves for some old-school printed maps.

Your Sky Tonight The Southern Crab Nebula

10th May, 2019 - 1.8k views

Every year, in celebration of another monumental anniversary of observations and discovery, the astronomers operating the Hubble Space Telescope release an annual image highlighting the beauty of our cosmos.

How to Measure Exoplanet Transit Light Curves w Amateur Telescopes

7th May, 2019 - 846 views

Off the shelf telescopes and cameras for amateur astronomy are now sensitive enough that you can actually measure exoplanets from your backyard! This hangout features a discussion with Jerry Hubbell from Explore Scientific.

The Hubble Constant Isnt

3rd May, 2019 - 7.3k views

The Big Bang description of our universe is heavily based on mathematical models that do not seem to stand up well to observations. Is the Big Bang Model doomed?

The Era of Direct Imaging of Exoplanets Has Arrived

25th Apr, 2019 - 4.1k views

In this episode, astronomers are finally starting to get direct images of planets around other stars, and not only that, for the first time, ground-based telescopes are actually getting measurements of the atmospheres of these galactic neighbors.

Was The EHT Black Hole Image a Waste of Time

18th Apr, 2019 - 10.1k views

Was the Event Horizon Telescope Black Hole image a waste of time? Astronomy research has a lot to teach us about our cosmos.

The PANOPTES Project Measure Exoplanets from Your Backyard

18th Apr, 2019 - 868 views

Telescope Talk Hangouts are sponsored by OPT Telescopes: https://bit.ly/2SwhmVB Project PANOPTES is a citizen science project that aims to make it easy for anyone to build a low cost, robotiic observatory that can be used to detect transiting exopla

The Large Millimeter Telescope

18th Apr, 2019 - 1.5k views

Telescope Talk Hangouts are sponsored by OPT Telescopes: https://bit.ly/2SwhmVB This week's Telescope Talk PRO hangout features science and technology from the Large Millimeter Telescope. Our guests Nat Denigris and David Sanchez will be on hand to

Adaptive Optics at the Extremely Large Telescope

10th Apr, 2019 - 1.5k views

Telescope Talk Hangouts are sponsored by OPT Telescopes: https://bit.ly/2SwhmVB The Extremely Large Telescope is a 40 meter segmented primary mirror telescope being built right now high in the mountains of Chile. The telescope will become the large

Event Horizon Telescope First Results Space Fan News

9th Apr, 2019 - 26.6k views

First results from the worldwide collaboration of telescopes known as the Event Horizon Telescope will be live streamed here. Join our Chat on Discord here: https://discord.gg/nqGpvtK Like this content? Please consider becoming a patron: https://pa

Space Junk Podcast Does New York

5th Apr, 2019 - 838 views

Space Junk Podcast is in New York and ready to some Astronomy. Tomorrow we setup in Times Square to image from one of the most light polluted areas in the world to highlight that the night sky is available to everyone. We're recording an episode of

Astro Imaging from Times Square

3rd Apr, 2019 - 3.5k views

Sponsored by OPT Telescopes: https://bit.ly/2SwhmVB Using the Triad filter designed and manufactured by OPT, we'll be imaging the night sky from one of the most light polluted areas in the world: Times Square. The idea is to show that the stars are