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, IL — August 28, 2024 — The Giant Magellan Telescope and Ingersoll Machine Tools Inc. today announced the start of manufacturing and assembly of the largest telescope mount built in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

I don’t know who said it first, but it bears repeating that the best telescope is the one that gets used the most. Many of you are familiar with different types of telescopes – reflectors are the ones ...

On March 15, 2012, the Large Binocular Telescope (LBT) made its first scientific results public; 25 years had passed since the project was first presented, but the wait was worth it. Among other ...

Dating back to 1904, Mount Wilson Observatory was founded by Dr. George Ellery Hale in the mountains of Pasadena where some of the world's oldest telescopes are housed. When Hale established the ...

A correction to an earlier version of this article has been appended to the end of the article. A huge slab of ice and snow slides off the huge domed roof of the Great Refractor telescope at Mount ...