Subject: Do you own the right telescope?
Do you own the right telescope?
March 23rd, 2015 at 4:53 pm ESTHello Friend, At first, this may seem like an odd question. Let me explain. Perhaps you've had your telescope for a while now, and find you aren't using it as much as you used too, when you first got it. Now there could be any number of reasons for ...
The telescope maker who loved the stars
March 20th, 2015 at 12:37 pm ESTHello Friend, John Alfred Brashear had only a third grade education. He worked in the steel mills of Pittsburgh as a millwright. After work, we would spend many an hour stargazing. He had a real passion for the night sky! He also wanted a telesco ...
The folly of Mars One
March 19th, 2015 at 4:30 pm ESTHello Friend, You've probably heard about Mars One. A dutch based marketing outfit that wants to establish a Colony on Mars by 2025. Great idea. But how you gonna pay for it? The price tag: 6 billion bucks to be raised through sponsors, private inv ...
An Ode to the Dark Vanishing Skies
March 18th, 2015 at 4:48 pm ESTHello Friend, Recently I told you about much is being done to protect the night skies from light pollutionby many amateur astronomers and other groups. Turns out Gary Citro, a public school music teacher, who is also an amateur astronomerhas written ...
St. Patrick's day explained
March 17th, 2015 at 2:05 pm ESTHello Friend, Do you like Frosted Lucky Charms cereal? I sure did when I was a kid. In fact, I recall one morning, I practically ate a whole box of it at one sitting, along with a pint or more ofmilk. Needless to say, I didn't feel great afte ...
And the battle continues....
March 16th, 2015 at 10:00 am ESTHello Friend, There's a battle going on. But it may be one that you are not really aware of. In the background, many groups and organizations such as the Royal astronomical Society of Canada and the International dark sky association for example, ar ...
Stephen Hawking and his new Celestron CPC 1100HD telescope
March 14th, 2015 at 3:34 pm ESTHello Friend, If you have not yet seen the movie "The Theory of Everything", which is about the life of Professor Stephen Hawking, you are missing a wonderful story. And then imagine Hawking now becoming an amateur astronomer. Recently, a team o ...
Just like a heroin addict.....
March 12th, 2015 at 3:31 pm ESTHello Friend, For the past couple of nights it's actually been clear around here. And hovering around zero degrees celsius, which feels like an absolute delight, compared to the frickin' cold weather we had here in northern Ontario, Canada for the m ...
A champagne telescope on a beer budget
March 11th, 2015 at 2:42 pm ESTHello Friend, I occasionally get asked the question, "Why do you not list your used telescopes for sale?" The answer to that is that our inventory on used items turns over fairly rapidly, and it's difficult to keep up withwhat comes and goes in a ti ...
Bats in your Belfry?
March 10th, 2015 at 4:06 pm ESTHello Friend, Well perhaps not. Do you remember the ship in the bottle? You would see them all the time; A small ship replica would be placed in a small bottleo and you had to try to figure out exactly how they did it through such a small bottlenec ...