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  2. Planetarium software - Wikipedia

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    Planetarium software. Planetarium software is application software that allows a user to simulate the celestial sphere at any time of day, especially at night, on a computer. Such applications can be as rudimentary as displaying a star chart or sky map for a specific time and location, or as complex as rendering photorealistic views of the sky ...

  3. Celestron - Wikipedia

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    Celestron was the first large scale commercial manufacturer of the Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope, introducing its "C8" 8" diameter 2032 mm focal length, ƒ10 telescope in 1970. [7] The primary innovation Celestron/Tom Johnson devised was a method to produce Schmidt corrector plates using a vacuum to pull the glass blanks into a pre-shaped curve ...

  4. SkyScout - Wikipedia

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    The SkyScout was a handheld, battery powered device about 7.4" x 4.0" x 2.5", and weighing about 1 pound. It had a viewing port, a 3" x 1" LCD display on the side and several buttons for controlling and selecting device functions. The SkyScout had a 12 channel GPS receiver and orientation sensors (whose accuracy was sensitive to proximity to ...

  5. Sky-Watcher - Wikipedia

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    Sky-Watcher. Sky-Watcher is a commercial distribution company established in 1999 by the Synta Technology Corporation of Taiwan (Synta Taiwan). It markets telescopes and astronomy equipment, such as mounts and eyepieces, aimed at the amateur astronomy market. The products are manufactured at Synta Taiwan's Suzhou Synta Optical Technology Co ...

  6. List of software for astronomy research and education

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    Download as PDF; Printable version ... Tiled Multi-Resolution All-Sky image Handling Displays ... Browser, Google Play, App Store No Free Aurore Simonnet, ...

  7. XEphem - Wikipedia

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    XEphem is a client for Internet data sources such as the Digitized Sky Survey, Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, AAVSO light curves, and global temperature and cloud coverage. Through the Instrument Neutral Distributed Interface, XEphem can control some models of amateur telescopes, such as by Meade, Celestron, and Vixen, and auxiliary ...

  8. Hubble Space Telescope - Wikipedia

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    COSMOS was launched in 2006 as the largest project pursued by the Hubble Space Telescope at the time, and still is the largest continuous area of sky covered for the purposes of mapping deep space in blank fields, 2.5 times the area of the moon on the sky and 17 times larger than the largest of the CANDELS regions. The COSMOS scientific ...

  9. Maksutov telescope - Wikipedia

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    A 150mm aperture Maksutov–Cassegrain telescope. The Maksutov (also called a " Mak ") [1] is a catadioptric telescope design that combines a spherical mirror with a weakly negative meniscus lens in a design that takes advantage of all the surfaces being nearly "spherically symmetrical". [2] The negative lens is usually full diameter and placed ...

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