The Huntsman Telescope comprises 10 Canon EF 400mm f/2.8 L IS II super-telephoto lenses. Macquarie University/Canon SHARE The Huntsman Telescope is located at the Siding Spring Observatory on the edge ...

Approximately two million Americans who have the advanced form of AMD, which affects the region of the retina responsible for central, detailed vision, and is the leading cause of irreversible vision ...

Ball Aerospace has shipped and delivered the large camera lens assembly to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California, which will be incorporated into the Large Synoptic Survey ...

If you already own one of the best telescopes and you want to safely view the partial solar eclipse on the 29 March, you may want to opt for a filter instead of buying a whole new solar telescope just ...

Macquarie University's Huntsman Telescope has successfully demonstrated daytime astronomy using an array of Canon camera lenses with the potential to continuously monitor celestial objects and ...

Scientists and engineers in California are building a unique camera for a unique telescope. The Rubin Observatory telescope going up on Cerro Pachón in north-central Chile can capture an unusually ...

For centuries, lenses have worked the same way: curved glass or plastic bending light to bring images into focus. But traditional lenses have a major drawback—the more powerful they need to be, the ...

If you've ever pointed your smartphone's camera skyward on a full moon, chances are you were pretty disappointed with the result. French smart telescope maker Vaonis is aiming to get you closer to the ...

For hundreds of years, the principle behind the telescope has been as simple as it gets: build a lens or mirror to collect a large amount of light, focus that light onto a detector (like an eye, a ...

Technicians are putting the final touches on the world's largest digital camera at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. The camera will be sent to Chile and installed on a telescope in the Andes.

Utah researchers demonstrated the capabilities of their flat lens with test images of the sun and moon. Credit: Menon Lab, University of Utah Utah researchers demonstrated the capabilities of their ...

Researchers developed a new ultra-thin planar (flat) "metalens" that can potentially replace the stacked, bulky lenses used in telescopes, microscopes, smartphones, cameras and other gadgets. Despite ...