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Optical Surfaces Celebrate 40 Years of Supplying High Precision Spectrograph Optics for Telescopes

News - 21 Oct 2019

For over 40 years Optical Surfaces Ltd. has supplied high precision spectrograph optics for land and space based astronomical telescopes. Drawing upon a highly experienced team of optical...
ETH Selects Zecotek's Solid-State Micro-Pixel Avalanche Photo Diodes to Study Cosmic Rays

News - 10 May 2011

Zecotek Photonics Inc (TSX-V: ZMS; Frankfurt: W1I), a developer of leading-edge photonics technologies for medical, industrial and scientific markets, today announced that the Swiss Federal Institute...
Top Quality On-Axis Mirrors Available from Optical Surfaces

News - 21 Oct 2019

Benefiting from a stabilised manufacturing environment - Optical Surfaces Ltd has built an international reputation for producing top quality on-axis mirrors, up to 800mm in diameter, for applications...
Hundred Metre Virtual Telescope Captures Unique Detailed Colour Image

News - 18 Feb 2009

"This is one of the first images made using near-infrared interferometry," says lead author Jean-Baptiste Le Bouquin. Interferometry is a technique that combines the light from several...
Emerging Field of Astrophotonics Shows Promise in Analyzing Light from the Night Sky

News - 5 Feb 2009

Future telescopes, with mirrors half the size of a football field, will need special components to deal with the light they collect. Astronomers are turning to photonic devices that guide and...
New Powerful Technique to Measure Shape and Size of Asteroids

News - 4 Feb 2009

"Knowledge of the sizes and shapes of asteroids is crucial to understanding how, in the early days of our Solar System, dust and pebbles collected together to form larger bodies and how...
Astronomers Combined Three Telescopes in Hawaii Using Advanced Computer Techniques

News - 25 Nov 2008

Astronomers have succeeded in combining three telescopes in Hawaii using advanced computer techniques. This virtual telescope, with a diameter of 782 metres, studies the formation of new stars and...
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has Taken First Visible-Light Snapshot of a Planet Circling Another Star

News - 13 Nov 2008

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has taken the first visible-light snapshot of a planet circling another star. Estimated to be no more than three times Jupiter's mass, the planet, called...
Super-Tough Sunshield for NASA's James Webb Space Telescope

News - 12 Nov 2008

Imagine sunglasses that can withstand the severe cold and heat of space, a barrage of radiation and high-speed impacts from small space debris. They don't exist, but Northrop Grumman engineers...
The MiniTower Telescope Mount Named "Hot Products 2009" by Sky and Telescope Magazine

News - 12 Nov 2008

The MiniTower(TM) Telescope Mount developed by iOptron Corporation has been named "Hot Products 2009" by Sky and Telescope Magazine, the world-wide leading publication for amateur astronomy....

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