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Astronomy News

Mini CubeSats MarCO fall silent

FREMONT, Calif. — The twin cubesats that played a key role in NASA’s most recent Mars lander mission have been out of contact with the Earth for more than a month, suggesting their trailblazing mission has come to an end. In a Feb. 5 statement, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory said that it not heard from …

Unboxing

Unboxing Celestron C11 A XLT

The only negative about C11 was his cheap diagonal and the luck of 2″ visualback.    11″ Schmidt-Cassegrain Optical Tube Assembly Aluminum Optical Tube Celestron’s premium StarBright XLT coatings 2800 mm focal length (f/10) 40 mm eyepiece included (70x) Visual back allows for use with 1.25″ accessories 9×50 finderscope to help accurately find objects Star …

Astronomical Software

HPO (Observatory Management Application)

HPO is an astronomy application in C# wich helps astronomers manage and organize their observatories. Calculating many astronomical parameters to record astronomical phenomena has always been very time consuming using the traditional methods. HPO application is changing the game in this field. With a wealth of tools,  helps the amateur astronomer calculate and record  scientific …