Subject: Skywatcher New mount now on sale
Skywatcher New mount now on sale
August 6th, 2015 at 4:57 pm EDT2015 New Product! EQ/AZ-EQ5 Skywatcher Mount Make your observing/imaging life easier with this ﾠfull featured mount. Featuring: Payload: 15k Foldable pier stand PPEC & Freedom find Shutter release control Autoguider Port...and more! Regular P ...
Planning to attend Starfest?
August 5th, 2015 at 4:01 pm EDTHello Friend, Well it's hard to believe. Already it's August and the Starfest annual Star Party will be here in a little over a week, once again. If you are planning on attending it's the weekend of August 14th to 16th, and being heldin Mount Fo ...
A Real quickie today
August 4th, 2015 at 11:46 am EDTHello Friend, If you have considered the idea of observing the Sun, using a whitelight filter, here is a great wayto get started. Lunt Solar Systems has just released a new compact pair of binoculars which are idealfor easy and safe solar observation ...
We interrupt your holiday Monday, to bring you this special announcement from Lunt Solar Systems
August 3rd, 2015 at 3:35 pm EDTHello Friend,It takes a lot to drag me away from a cold bottle of Split Rail Hawberry Ale, on a hot sunny day.However.....Here is a really unique product rarely available from Lunt Solar Systems. If you want one, you have to order right away, because ...
Big Aperture, Lower prices
August 1st, 2015 at 4:12 pm EDTGood news folks: We've got the Meade Lightbridge Dobsonians on sale right now. Big Aperture, and Portable to boot. * 10 inch lightbridge on sale here! * 12 inch Lightbridge on sale here! * 16 inch Lightbridge on sale here! Aperture fever cured wi ...
How to avoid Rakesh and Windows 10
July 30th, 2015 at 4:32 pm EDTHello 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 EDTHello 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 EDTHello 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 EDTHello 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 EDTHello 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 ...