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WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) -The solar eclipse is just a week away and Rick Murray is busy practicing. Seven years ago he found himself in the path of totality, the best place to be during an eclipse. Using ...

We've known for a while now that Canon plans to launch a variety of unusual cameras that will target markets underserved by smartphones, which have largely decimated the point-and-shoot digital camera ...

I have a colleague who's using an Omax A35 camera with ToupLite software to make micrographs. The issue with it is that the ToupLite software is not very good; I suspect it's a half-hearted port of a ...

Assembly has been completed on the Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam) that will be the primary imager on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and will also act as the telescope’s wavefront sensor to ...

The list of add-ons that let you to tinker with the photo taking capabilities of your iPhone is about to get even bigger with the launch of Magnifi. Rather than tacking a zoom or fish-eye lens onto ...

Considering the versatility of the microscopes available today, it's surprising that more people don't own one. They're handy in revealing fine detail in small objects at magnifications that a loupe ...

Researchers developed a new ultra-thin planar (flat) "metalens" that can potentially replace the stacked, bulky lenses used in telescopes, microscopes, smartphones, cameras and other gadgets. Despite ...

This has been called the golden age of astronomy, and there’s a new telescope on the block — or, more precisely, on top of a mountain in Chile. The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, funded by American ...