Subject: From Atheist to Monk, a legend dies..........
From Atheist to Monk, a legend dies..........
January 16th, 2014 at 6:56 am EDTHello Friend, One of the greatest influences in the hobby of amateur astronomy was John Dobson. He died on January 15th at the grand old age of 98. It was a real pleasure to have met John Dobson, at the annual Stellafane (telescope builders conventi ...
What? A Secret TeleVue eyepiece that never made it to market....
January 15th, 2014 at 6:52 am EDTHello Friend, In his office at TeleVue, Al Nagler has a glass cabinet that proudly displays all his telescope eyepieces thathe has designed and manufactured over the past several years. However, I happened to notice one that I had never seen or ...
The return of Meade Instruments
January 14th, 2014 at 6:53 am EDTHello Friend, Meade Instruments has always taken the approach of utilizing high technology advances in the manufacturing of their instruments. Many years ago, they were the first company to come out with the computerized "goto" telescope (The CAT s ...
Where's the Beef? Celestron delivers.....!
January 11th, 2014 at 3:52 am EDTHello Friend, Well, after a week of not so pleasant weather last week in Toronto, Friday night was the time to visit withsome friends in Guelph, and listen to some Blues Music, some food and wine.....well you get the picture. Turns out, this musica ...
continued: Looking to hook up? Al Nagler of TeleVue's dating "advice "
January 9th, 2014 at 7:47 am EDTHello Friend, One thing you could say for Al Nagler of TeleVue optics, is that he had a good dating system figured out. He met his wife Judi (co-founder of TeleVue Optics ) back in 1959; So the first thing he did was take her to the Hayden Planetari ...
How Al Nagler went from designing women's Bra's to Eyepieces
January 8th, 2014 at 7:12 am EDTHello Friend, Every year, I meet up with Al Nagler of TeleVue, at the NEAF astronomy conference in held in New York. And he always has some amazing stories to tell; Al has worked at many different jobs in his life, before he started TeleVue optics ...
Don't miss the Astronomy Space & Exploration Society Symposium January 24th
January 6th, 2014 at 6:37 am EDTHello Friend, During the past two decades astronomers and cosmologists have assembled an extremely successful model that accurately describes and explains the evolution of the observable universe over the past 13.8 billion years, most recently confi ...
What to do when it's cold? Why see a belly dancer of course!
January 4th, 2014 at 4:38 am EDTHello Friend, The past few days in Toronto have been hovering around the -20's and add the windchill and it's just no fun! Heck, even when I took our dog Maya out for a walk, she refused to do her business...She is a small Maltese Westie, and just ...
If you own a Celestron product,then you'll want to read this important update
January 3rd, 2014 at 8:44 am EDTHello Friend. Celestron Computerized telescopes and accessories are constantly being updated, improved andbug fixes being applied, as they are discovered. Highly recommend that you update all the firmware on your Celestron productsas noted in the lis ...
Steven and Miroslav tackle the Winter Skies
December 29th, 2013 at 9:46 am EDTHello Friend, Recently, I wrote about how about observing during the Winter was some of the best of the year. I received a few emails from couple of troopers who are ain't letting the coldstop them from getting out and observing. Perhaps a little ...