Subject: Does sexism exist in your astronomy club?
Does sexism exist in your astronomy club?
February 6th, 2015 at 4:21 pm EDTHello Friend, Frankly, I could not believe my ears. Recently, we had a female customer come in to the store, who had been in the hobby for quite a number of years. She decided that she wanted to purchase a fairly large instrument, that she could use ...
Why Pluto will always remain a Planet
February 5th, 2015 at 3:32 pm EDTHello Friend, The late Clyde Tombaugh. An avid amateur astronomer himself, and discoverer of the planet Pluto, at the ripe old age of 24. Now, we all know that the International Astronomical Union (IAU) reclassified Pluto as a dwarf planet back bac ...
Superbowl weight loss secrets
February 4th, 2015 at 3:57 pm EDTHello Friend, You have to hit the gym and work it off the day after basically. Last night it was clear. Friend, here are 3 reasons I didn't go out to observe. 1) Full Moon 2) It was too cold 3) It was really cold! Now, some might argue that those ...
Keeping connected to the night sky
February 3rd, 2015 at 2:04 pm EDTHello Friend, Several years ago I was invited to do a presentation at Gordon's Park on Manitoulin Island, innorthern Ontario. It's about 7 hours northwest of Toronto. Gordons Park is run by Rita and Terry Gordon, who have worked very hard to creat ...
Meet a councillor with great foresight on light pollution
February 2nd, 2015 at 3:21 pm EDTHello Friend, Light pollution is a serious problem for amateur astronomersand at some point, you have likely been aware of it. You might have been trying to observe something, from your backyard,and there was this annoying light, interfering with you ...
World's largest telescope: Green light for construction to begin
January 30th, 2015 at 1:07 pm EDTHello Friend, While our Canadian government is yet to decide whether or not to further commit fundingof the TMT (thirty metre telescope), a Europeanconsortium of 13 countries, along with Brazil has given the go ahead for constructing what will be kn ...
Not yet another Global warming conspiracy?
January 29th, 2015 at 2:59 pm EDTHello Friend, Unfortunately, this one tries to implicate God as the culprit. There is an Oklahama Senator, by the names of James Inhofe, who wrote a book a couple of years agowith the title: The Greatest Hoax: How the Global Warming conspiracy threa ...
Soft speaking, nice looking sales staff? Apparently not here
January 28th, 2015 at 4:05 pm EDTHello Friend, "Soft speaking, nice looking sales staff?". Apparently not at Khan Scope, according to the customer below. Do we carry a huge inventory? Well, yes we do. And... When a customer comes into our retail store to buy a telescope, we try to ...
New Sky and Telescope Hot Product of 2015
January 27th, 2015 at 3:04 pm EDTHello Friend, Well this is a hot product in more ways than one. First of all Sky and Telescope has awarded the New Lunt 50mm H Alpha Solar Scopes models their auspicious 2015 Hot product award. In other words, this is a complete winner! Can't disag ...
Observe asteroid 2004 BL tonite!
January 26th, 2015 at 2:19 pm EDTHello Friend, There is a cool large asteroid that will be visible this evening, and what's unique about is is that it's visible through amateur sized telescopes. Here is more information about it, courtesy of Toronto amateur astronomer Chris Vaughan ...