Subject: Fed up with crappy equatorial mounts? 3 years in the making: the CGX Equatorial
Fed up with crappy equatorial mounts? 3 years in the making: the CGX Equatorial
September 27th, 2016 at 4:55 pm EDTHello Friend,American ingenuity has struck again. Despite what Donald Trump would have you believe when it comes to inventing and creating innovative products, no one is betterthan American engineers. (equal only to Canadian engineers of course).Fo ...
A sensible solution to battling light pollution, that you can help out with
September 20th, 2016 at 4:36 pm EDTHello Friend,Yesterday I told you about how the scourge of light pollution and how it is affecting us all.It's outrageous that I have to drive 2.5 hours to find a reasonably dark sky from Toronto. (Actually, I drive about 6.5 hours to the pristine s ...
Sick and tired of observing under light polluted skies?
September 19th, 2016 at 4:13 pm EDTHello Friend,If you live in a city like Toronto, where I have spent most of my life, you see the dark skies deteriorating year after year I actually recall over 30 years ago I could see a 6th magnitude star naked eye from north Toronto on what usedto ...
Last chance to save $50 on this brand new product release from Celestron
September 18th, 2016 at 5:41 pm EDTCelestron has just released the NEW Celestron Neximage 10 imager.Tired of getting frustrated trying to take images, process them and have some decent results to show for your efforts?Celestron engineers hear you, and created the Neximage 10 imager to ...
Meet the worst astroimager ever
September 17th, 2016 at 4:21 pm EDTHello Friend, That might have been me. When I first started dabbling in astrophotography many years ago, I was rather disappointed in the images that I produced. Yes, it was frustrating just to try and focus and image on to the film plane of a 35mm c ...
I'm back! And with a special offer for this weekend only
September 16th, 2016 at 3:53 pm EDTHello Friend,I was in the store yesterday and bumped into customer Richard York, who asked me why I had not sent any messages lately.Had I possibly died and gone to heaven? Well no, because here I was live and in person.I was in the lovely city of Mo ...
Whoops! Alex made a blunder
August 29th, 2016 at 11:43 am EDTHello Friend,On 'Sunday Alex sent out an email regarding the Celestron Sale on CGEM EDGE HD telescopes and CPC HD seriestelescopes that will be coming to an end this Wednesday.Astroimagers: The RASA Imaging system is also on sale.I gave him one simpl ...
A special message from Alex at Khan Scope
August 28th, 2016 at 3:54 pm EDTRay is off today, headed to a beer and barbeque event at a friends house and has asked me to send you this message before he forgetsto do it at all and time is fast running out. We are selling these Celestron systems like they are going out of style ...
I'm not whistling Dixie brother!
August 26th, 2016 at 10:46 am EDTHello Friend,In case you didn't know it, the subject line in simple English means that I am not blowing smoke hereSome really cool stuff has been happening lately.For example clear, dark night skies, It has given me an opportunity to test out some n ...
Is the party over at the David Dunlap Observatory?
August 22nd, 2016 at 4:13 pm EDTHello Friend,It appears that the Toronto Centre of the Royal Astronomical Society, who have been successfully operating the 74-inch astronomicaltelescope for the past several years, to further public education, will cease operating the facility as of ...