With an 80mm wide-angle telescope you can catch M7, also known as Ptolemy’s Cluster, a spectacular open star cluster. About 2° to the south is NGC 6441, a small globular cluster just east of ...

GeekWire Podcasts Tech leader Charles Simonyi provides a wide-angle view of the telescope that bears his family name by Alan Boyle on September 28, 2024 at 6:08 am Share 56 Tweet Reddit Email ...

Pan-STARRS1 and Pan-STARRS2 are modest (1.8-meter), nearly identical telescopes perched atop the summit of Haleakala on the island of Maui. These modern marvels use wide-angle views and the largest ...

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The US currently has the Sloan Digital Sky Survey in New Mexico that also uses a 2.5-meter wide-angle telescope, but it cannot survey the entire northern sky.

No wonder the telescope bears his name. In this week’s GeekWire Podcast, Simonyi provides a wide-angle perspective on the telescope and his involvement in the project.

The US currently has the Sloan Digital Sky Survey in New Mexico that also uses a 2.5-meter wide-angle telescope, but it cannot survey the entire northern sky.