Top best telescope makers

There are many telescope vendors around the world who boast a lot about their performance, credibility, clarity..etc.. etc..

But there are very few vendors who really stand 'Outstanding' in the satisfaction of newbie as well as professional astronomers..

ekhagola tries to bring best in class to you among the telescope vendors.. Three best in class vendors are 

• Meadae  
• Orion
• Celestron 

1. Meade. 

Visit: http://www.meade.com


Innovation has been the key to success for this company. The instruments are class apart. 

Meade Instruments Corp.

Founded in 1972 and public since 1997, Meade is a world leader in the design and manufacture of telescopes and accessories for amateur astronomers. The Company's innovative and technologically advanced products are recognized to be among the best in the world.

2. Orion

 Visit:http://www.telescope.com

Orion Telescopes & Binoculars is an American-based retailer of foreign manufactured telescopes and other equipment for astronomy that also sells some equipment for other areas of interest, such as birdwatching. It operates several retail stores in California as well as an online store and a semi-quarterly mail-order catalog.

Orion Telescopes & Binoculars was founded in 1975 by Tim Gieseler, who served as its only president and CEO. Since January, 2005, it has been owned by Imaginova, the U.S. conglomorate founded in 1999 by CNN business anchor Lou Dobbs. Between the mid-1990s and 2005, Orion only sold binoculars, telescopes and accessories under the "Orion" brand, but since the Imaginova acquisition, Orion has started to sell non-Orion brand products as well, including Tele Vue eyepieces, Celestron 8 and 11-inch (280 mm) Schmidt-Cassegrain telescopes.

3. Celestron: 

Visit: http://www.celestron.com

Welcome to the world of high class products from "Orange" laboratory.. 

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 the mid-1960s. The telescope, with its trademark matte orange tube (changed to glossy black in 1980, and back to semi-gloss orange in 2006), and double-fork equatorial mount, has been a popular large aperture, compact design.

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Top 5 Space Websites

If you type space website in google you will get 251,000,000 results!!

Hmmm.. That is quite a number?

How to find the spectacular sites out of it?

Welcome to ekhagola's top five spectacular space website list with description..

1.SEDS

seds.org

You expected NASA? .. Surprised!! But it is true.. It is an wonderful organization for space enthusiast students.. Check it out..

2. Space.com

http://www.space.com/



Once again sorry for NASA..

Space.com is an amazing website for all space enthausiasts around the world with daily updated news, video and photos.. It is indeed an wonderful website

3.NASA

 
www.nasa.gov/
Here comes NASA with its legacy..
Some say it as the undisputed world champion of all space sites offers a mind-blowing range of stuff, from photos, celestial maps and in-depth information to the chance to watch shuttle launches and interviews with astronauts on their own NASA television channel. I don't agree it as greatest but off course it is in the top list..


4.Hubble

hubblesite.org/

Videos and stunning high-resolution pictures from the galaxy's most famous telescope

5.Sky and Telescope

 
http://www.skyandtelescope.com/
Amazing website with plenty of information about telescopes and related technology..





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400 Years Ago.. He magnified the Universe for Us..

It is 400 years since Galileo Galilei demonstrated his telescope, which would lead him to make new astronomical observations.

Exactly 400 years ago today, on 25 August 1609, the Italian astronomer and philosopher Galilei Galileo showed Venetian merchants his new creation, a telescope – the instrument that was to bring him both scientific immortality and, more immediately, a whole lot of trouble.

The beauty of this discovery is, It changed the way we observed the universe. It made us feel for the first time that we are not "everything" in this universe, but we are one out of everything in "somewhere" in this universe. From his simple telescope the telescope technology grew in a spectacular fashion by solving every problem came on its path.

We are no longer depending on a small visible rage of spectrum. We are trying to explore the universe by covering all the ranges of spectrum. We went beyond ultra violet range to above infra red.

But still the legacy of Galileo's telescope still remains. It was the begining. Creation of telescope by him was not a big deal. But the important achievement is scientific observation and recordings of discoveries.

Galileo's discoveries were, perhaps predictably, not best welcomed by the Catholic church, and he spent the final decade of his life under house arrest.

Hats off to you Galileo!! You changed the way we peep in to this Universe..

You magnified the universe for Us..

Spirituality of Science..

What is the relation between Science and Spiritual Philosophy?
Nowadays a craze hase been started to compare the parallels between Mystcism and Science..
As modern Science evolved With full swing the followers of the Modern Physics struck with the close resemblence between the bizarre concepts of Modern Physics and Spirituality..
The stock of infinite words became finite when the Modern Physics Tried to enter into the heart of mother nature..
The Only choice left was a language which flows as a fluid between the reality and spirituality..
There Comes the language of Philosophy...
People thought it is unusual.. They Stunned...
But if we analyse deeply.. The parallels are not Acciedental..
They are quite natural..
From One Golden Era the human brain started to evolve..
It tried to understand the truth by experience..
Human race tried to document each and every thing through experience..
But the problem with this kind of document was "non-reproducibility" of most of the part..
You cant experience the experience by reading About the experience..
Later on other problems added to this documentation of the truth by experience..
People tried to impose their experiences as absolute truth which must be followed by others..
The stronger race ruled weaker race by claiming their supiriority in their documentation of truth by experience..
But people started to oppose this slowly..
They thought these documentations of truth by experience are inadequate..
Everybody dont have the ability or the time to experience the truth..
The truth must be "accesible" and "available" all the time to all the people..
So they tried to find the truth and secrets of nature by "Expriments"..
"Well defined logics"...
They tried to formulate the "Experience into Experiments"..
Hence "Science "Evolved..
But as time passed some people thought that "The Science is absolute"..
Some people argued that spirituality is absolute..
Both forgot that their mission is to understand the truth..
Nowadays we humans are slowly realising the fact that "Science and Spirituality" are just different approaches to reach the truth..
Truth .. Which is "Natural"..
Truth .. Which is "Absolute"..
Truth .. which is "Beautiful"..
Truth .. which is "Simple"..!!

Fake of Fake Moon Part 7

Who filmed Neil Armstrong coming out of the Lunar Module when there was no-one on the surface to do this?

There was a video camera mounted and extended from the side of the landing module especially for this purpose. NASA anticipated that the moment that Armstrong stepped onto the Moon would be thought as being particularly significant and something everyone would want to see.
As Armstrong started down the ladder he remotely deployed it, swinging it out from its storage position in the side of the module. Note how the left hand side of the video image is obscured by both the side of the Lunar Module and the arm of the storage compartment that lowered it. (The horizontal black bar across the middle is interference flickering across the TV screen it was filmed off.)
The way the camera was mounted meant that these first pictures were actually upside-down and had to be flipped over once received on Earth. The same camera was then removed and used to send video pictures of the rest of the lunar activities from a stand on the lunar surface.

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Fake of Fake of Moon-Part 6

This picture and other filmed footage of the American flag on the moon seems to show it fluttering. How is this possible if there's no atmosphere or wind on the moon?










This is one of the most common questions about the Apollo landings and is often used as evidence of a hoax. Fortunately there is nothing peculiar about what we can see here at all. Not if we remember this is happening on the moon.
Firstly the flag had a horizontal bar attached to it at the top. This was done so that the flag would stand out from the flagpole. NASA appreciated that there would be no wind on the moon, so any normal flag would just hang limply and unattractively down the pole. To make things look better they added a bar that stood out at 90 degrees from the pole. The flag was really hanging from this, rather than from the pole. The bar was also not quite the full width of the flag, so that it was slightly furled to give a 'wave look' to it.
The moon's surface, once you get past the thin layer of dust, is very hard. So getting the flagpole to stick in was a tough job. The footage shows the astronaut twisting the pole back and forth in order to try and get it further into the ground. This movement made the attached bar and flag flutter.
The flagpole itself was light aluminium that is quite springy. Even once the astronaut let go the pole would continue to vibrate. This in turn would shake the bar and flap the flag. Without any air to dampen this it would continue to do so for longer than you might expect.