Subject: Ground control to Major Tom
Ground control to Major Tom
January 11th, 2016 at 4:47 pm EDTHello Friend, Truly a sad day today, with the loss of one of music's greatest icon's, David Bowie. He was such a versatile person: Performer, musician, and a very nice person. Just listen to any of his interviews. In fact, Commander Chris Hadfield d ...
Bumping and Grinding
January 10th, 2016 at 4:57 pm EDTHello Friend, If you were under the impression this was going to be some instruction on how to swing yourhips on the dance floor, sorry to have to disappoint you. I am talking more about the bump and grinding that is made when one is making theiro ...
Was I too harsh on beginner telescopes?
January 8th, 2016 at 3:52 pm EDTHello Friend, Yesterday, I wrote about beginner telescopes that are poorly manufactured todayand sold into the mass markets, via the big box and Walmart's of the world. I received this response from newsletter reader, Marc Lafleur: Thanks for this R ...
I cringe whenever I see this
January 7th, 2016 at 12:14 pm EDTHello Friend, Come the month of January many people come into the store with telescopes they received over the holidays, that were usually purchased at a department orbig box store as a well intentioned gift wondering why their scopes do not seemto w ...
Hillary Clinton hunting down the aliens
January 6th, 2016 at 4:25 pm EDTHello Friend, “I think we may have been (visited already). We don't know for sure,” -Hillary Clinton Well, it appears that if Hillary Clinton is elected President of the United Statesshe will pursue the search for alien life. Well, makes perfect ...
New Galaxy discovered with backyard telescope
January 5th, 2016 at 2:01 pm EDTHello Friend, Amateur astronomer Michael Sidonio has discovered a galaxy with a 30cm (12 inch) telescopejust outside of Canberra, Australia. Interestingly he took a prize winning image of NGC 253 which is a known galaxyand a popular one at that, in ...
Control your Celestron telescope with your smartphone and smartdevice
January 4th, 2016 at 12:49 pm EDTHello Friend, One of the really cool things about owning a computerized Celestron telescope is that you are now able to control it with your smartphone/smartdevice. Being tied down to the wired handcontrol of your telescope can be a real pain in they ...
It's my birthday, but you get the presents!
January 2nd, 2016 at 3:07 pm EDTHello Friend, Here is the problem when you have your birthday so close to a major holiday likeChristmas. You usually get "gypped" on the birthday present or you hear statements like"we combined the two gifts" Sure you did! As a kid, I never really be ...