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 ...

Buying a telescope, like buying a car or stereo equipment, is subject to your tastes as a consumer. In other words, the choice is up to you — but Astronomy can provide some guidelines to make your ...

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 ...

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 ...

There’s many complex systems for automatically pointing a telescope at an object in the sky, but most of them are too expensive for the amateur astronomer. [Kevin]’s Arduino ST4 interface lets you ...

Work has now begun on what is believed to be the largest telescope mount ever built in the US, with Ingersoll Machine Tools scheduled to complete the 39-meter-tall precision moving structure by the ...

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 ...

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 ...