by planewaveinstr | Jul 9, 2019 | Advanced Amateur Astronomer, Education, Press Releases
The CDK 700 after installation. Sitting 13 miles west of Boston under suburban skies (and a mere 32m above sea level!) is Wellesley College, the world’s preeminent college for women. Since 1870, Wellesley has given women the education and skills to make a...
by planewaveinstr | Mar 21, 2019 | Advanced Amateur Astronomer, Aerospace, Articles and White Papers, Education, Research
By Russell M. Genet Abstract Automated instrument sequencers were employed on solar eclipse expeditions in the late 1800s. However, it was not until the 1960s that Art Code and associates at Wisconsin used a PDP-8 minicomputer with 4 K of RAM to automate an 8-inch...
by planewaveinstr | Nov 30, 2018 | Articles and White Papers, Education, Research
Officially launching last June, the Student Space Telescope Network (or SSTN) is the brainchild of Ralph Emerson, PlaneWave Instruments’ Vice President of Sales & Marketing; Russell Genet, research scholar and resident at California Polytechnic State University;...
by planewaveinstr | Nov 30, 2018 | Articles and White Papers, Education, Research
The US DoD is testing a new S-band radar space fence at Kwajalein. It should find and track most new objects during their first pass, rather than needing days to months using hit-or-miss “pencil-beam” radars. This fence may find many objects down to 2-5 cm that were...
by planewaveinstr | Aug 16, 2018 | Aerospace, Education, Press Releases, Research
The second annual Conference on Robotic Telescopes, Student Research and Education (RTSRE), held on Hawaii’s East Coast between July 23 and 25, brought a great gathering of astronomers, educators, students, and allied professionals to the storied Big Island, for a...
by planewaveinstr | Feb 26, 2018 | Education, Press Releases
The Great Basin Observatory (GBO), located in Nevada’s Great Basin National Park, achieved a milestone this summer, as it marked a full year since the “First Light” ceremony celebrating the Park Service’s 100th anniversary. The telescope, a PlaneWave model CDK-700,...
