One of the current evolutions and revolutions going on in equipment for amateur astronomers is the reinvention of the portable telescope mount. Thanks to the miniaturization of advanced electronics ...

Pointing at stars may seem easy on the surface—just mount a telescope to a tripod and you’re done, right? As anyone who’s spent time with a telescope can tell you, it’s not that simple, given that the ...

Giant Magellan Telescope mount concrete pit with spring boxes at Ingersoll Machine Tools facility in Rockford, IL.Image Credit: Damien Jemison, Giant Magellan Telescope – GMTO Corporation ROCKFORD, ...

Buying a telescope is a big step, especially if you’re not sure what all those terms — f/ratio, magnification, go-to — mean. So, to eliminate confusion and make sure you understand what you’re buying, ...

[GregO29] had a 10″ GoTo telescope but at 70lbs, it wasn’t really portable. And so he did what any self-respecting CNC enthusiast would do, he put his CNC skills to work to make an 8″ Newtonian ...

Ingersoll Machine Tools on Tuesday began construction of the largest telescope mount ever built in the United States. The 12-story tall mount that will be built at the company's facility at 707 Fulton ...

ROCKFORD — Ingersoll Machine Tools, 707 Fulton Ave., is expanding its campus for a project that is truly out of this world. Ingersoll broke ground Tuesday for a building where employees will assemble ...

A Tasmanian observatory will be able to track fast-moving satellites and help prevent space junk collisions with "catastrophic consequences" after a new mount was donated by a technology company. The ...