• Question: What do you see through the telloscope you use!

    Asked by anon-246146 to David on 8 Mar 2020.
    • Photo: David Sobral

      David Sobral answered on 8 Mar 2020: last edited 8 Mar 2020 11:37 pm

      You can literally “see” anything you can think of. From capturing super high energy X-ray photons all the way to radio waves from distant galaxies. Many times the images look amazing straight away, like when we capture them with the Hubble Space Telescope.

      Typically when you capture data at the telescope it might look just like “noise” or it won’t reveal what you want to see straight away, but that’s when all the Science makes a huge difference and is definitely “magic” for anyone that does not understand it.

      You can also get to know more about how it is to go observing here: https://xgalweb.wordpress.com/observing/

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