Subject: New TeleVue Delite eyepieces have just arrived
New TeleVue Delite eyepieces have just arrived
July 22nd, 2015 at 3:57 pm EDTAnd 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 EDTHello 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 EDTHello 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 EDTHello 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 EDTHello 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 ...
Discoverer of Pluto riding high
July 14th, 2015 at 4:01 pm EDTHello Friend, Astronomer Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto back in 1930, at the ripe old age of 24. He passed away in 1998. He was 90 years old. Now when the astronomical union a few years ago decided to demote Pluto to a minor planet,I'm sure Tombaug ...
The Search for Bigfoot continues
July 13th, 2015 at 3:29 pm EDTHello Friend, The process of searching for Bigfoot is called "squatching". I spend a fair bit of time in the north, and while I have had close encounters with bearsand the odd moose, never ran into anything even resembling a Sasquatch. However, we ...
The saddest telescope of all
July 10th, 2015 at 4:13 pm EDTHello Friend, Recently an older gentleman came in and told us about this experience with his first telescope. He had purchased a telescope several years ago, and took it out once or twice and then put it awayinto the closet. Seems he could not quit ...
The folly of young earth creationists
July 9th, 2015 at 4:22 pm EDTHello Friend, While in beautiful Nova Scoti recently, I visited the Joggins fossils cliffs, a UNESCO world heritage sight. If you have seen the recent television series, COSMOS with Neil Degrasse Tyson, who remarks inthe opening scenes: "There are pl ...
By Jove, he's done it again!
July 8th, 2015 at 10:11 am EDTHello Friend, While at the General assembly in Halifax, I ran into my old colleague Eric Briggs. Eric worked at Khanscope several years ago, until he shuffled off to Buffalo, NY where henow resides. He had a grin like a chesire cat. And when Er ...