Subject: You can't teach an old dog new tricks, so they say
You can't teach an old dog new tricks, so they say
August 8th, 2014 at 12:44 pm EDTHello Friend, My buddy Glenn Norman would be the first to tell you that that statement simply is not true. Why? Cos as Glenn says, he's an old dog. And he just learnt a few new tricks! I just finished reading his article in the latest issue of Sky ...
Telescope misbehaving? Here's how to deal with it.
August 7th, 2014 at 2:08 pm EDTHello Friend, I ran into an old customer that I had not seen in a few years last week. He had called me up a few years ago, and asked if I would buy his telescope asap, becausehe had lost his job and needed the money to pay some bills. Broke up with ...
Rosetta: The countdown begins!
August 6th, 2014 at 11:44 am EDTHello Friend, The European Space agency is on a mission right now, that has been in the making for the past 10 years. And it's the Rosetta mission. Rendezvousing with Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko today. And it gets better. After rendezvous on 6 A ...
The perfect beginner telescope?
August 5th, 2014 at 10:25 am EDTLooking for the perfect beginner telescope? In a market filled with tempting telescopes, very few fill the bill as an outstanding beginner telescope. While a computer assisted telescope is a fine thing, it doesn't teach you how to read star charts o ...
The first ever Schmidt Cassegrain telescope with integrated WIFI
August 4th, 2014 at 10:48 am EDTHello Friend, Telescope hand controls have long been the bain of many amateur astronomers. Yours truly included. If I could count the many times I've dropped one, tangled one up on my drive mounts, or had one fail at the mostinconvenient of occassion ...
Making friends with our neighbour, the Moon
August 3rd, 2014 at 1:40 pm EDTHello Friend, Last night, I was observing the Moon, in the early evening, and a promising evening of a clear nightand being able to see the Teapot (Sagittarius) looming over the southern horizon was enticing. As I started a fire in the firepit by t ...
Does your telescope have these weak links?
August 2nd, 2014 at 10:41 am EDTHello Friend, Some times it's just a minor tweak that can improve your telescope. Over the years, I've found that making some small changes with your instrument, can give you vastly improved results. These are more for entry level and some mid range ...
Confused about astroimaging? Salvation for beginners starts here
July 31st, 2014 at 2:47 pm EDTHello Friend, Perhaps you might be one of them. The type of person, that has a notion that they might want to try out some astroimaging, but you are afraid you might not get good results, or perhaps you feel your telescope skills may not be good eno ...
A Solar Storm that you may not have heard about
July 30th, 2014 at 12:58 pm EDTHello Friend, What are the odds of this happening again? Way back in 1859, an English amateur astronomer,a fellow by the name of Thomas Carrington, observed and noted Solar activity (sunspots)and then, lo and behold, there was a large coronal mas ...
UFO's spotted over North Toronto this past weekend
July 29th, 2014 at 2:07 pm EDTHello Friend, Maybe it's just me. This is by no means scientifically documented, my observation has been thatit's usually clear when the Moon is full. Here is some further evidence: This past weekend was a New Moon, and it was overcast,and at 8pm, w ...