Subject: How to avoid Rakesh and Windows 10
How to avoid Rakesh and Windows 10
July 30th, 2015 at 4:32 pm ESTHello Friend, Well it's mine own damn fault. I foolishly upgraded to Windows 10 last night, hoping against all hope that Microsoft would get itright this time, but no they didn't. Usually one should wait a few months to get the bugs out, but I disli ...
Beer and aperture fever
July 29th, 2015 at 2:50 pm ESTHello Friend, Last Friday was exciting times on Manitoulin Island. The first official brewery on the island opened up, called the Split Rail Brewery , named after the iconic railsthat are used all over the island to make wooden boundary fences. Int ...
Deep Sky imaging with extraordinary results
July 27th, 2015 at 4:36 pm ESTHello Friend, All CCD cameras are not created equal. There is more to it than simply taking the image with the camera. It's all the work that comes after doing that you have to take into consideration to producethe final image. A lot of post process ...
A great telescope with crap eyepieces
July 24th, 2015 at 12:38 pm ESTHello Friend, One of the biggest problem I have found over the years with many amateur astronomers is convincingthem to invest in good eyepieces for their telescope equipment. And many times, even mediocre performing telescopes, can be vastly impro ...
Al Nagler's vision for the Delite eyepieces
July 23rd, 2015 at 4:24 pm ESTHello Friend, I first saw the new TeleVue delite eyepieces when they were released at the NEAF astronomy show in theSpring. While having a drink with Al Nagler (Ok, I was doing most of the drinking), I asked him about thesenew eyepiece designs and ...
New TeleVue Delite eyepieces have just arrived
July 22nd, 2015 at 3:57 pm ESTAnd just in time for Summer stargazing, and Summer starparties ﾠTelevue Delite Eyepieces ﾠ ﾠ ﾠ ﾠ The DeLite series is a lightweight! 62ﾺ apparent field of view 20mm of comfortable eye relief unique sliding/ locking eye guard Slim p ...
Astrology and Strawberries?
July 21st, 2015 at 4:26 pm ESTHello Friend, I was up first thing this morning and out in the front yard watering all the many plants we have. This hot weather as of late, has really made them all quite thirsty. Of course, when I get to the strawberry plants, I always stop to ea ...
New horizons anti science research
July 20th, 2015 at 4:01 pm ESTHello Friend, Remember my neighbour in the north country who suggested that the earth was about 6000 years old? Well he was kind enough to send me a link to support this theories, which he saidwas written by a "credible scientist". Now first of all ...
An epic mind blowing week!
July 17th, 2015 at 4:00 pm ESTHello Friend,. This past week has been absolutely epic. Imagine....the flyby of Pluto by New Horizons. That spacecraft travelled more than three billion milesover the past nine years to reach the outermost of the solar system. I mentioned this to o ...
An apology from Celestron
July 15th, 2015 at 4:06 pm ESTHello Friend, Recently, the good people at Celestron decided it was time to upgrade their entire software and hardware system. Now in anyone's books, that is always a difficult thing to to, and keep running business as usual. And it turns out that ...