Subject: Telescope abusers, I am looking for you
Telescope abusers, I am looking for you
March 3rd, 2016 at 2:25 pm EDTHello Friend, A customer brought in a telescope this week, that was not focusing an image. It was a newtonian reflector 5 inches in aperture. Now before he bought it in for us to take a look at, he decided to attempt torepair the telescope himself. ...
Celestron CGEM & CGEM DX EQ mounts on promotion
March 1st, 2016 at 5:05 pm EDTHello Friend, Perhaps you are being optimistic and hoping for an early Spring and have thoughts about astro-imaging. Otherwise, ground hog stew is looking mighty good! Now here is a fact: If you have an equatorial mount, loaded with all kinds of gea ...
My true Sunday Confession
February 28th, 2016 at 1:17 pm EDTHello Friend, No I did not go to church today. I did many years ago. As a member of the Pentecostal church. We had a great pastor back in those daysand he really did his level best to share some interesting sermons on Sunday mornings. My two daught ...
This is a kickass telescope
February 26th, 2016 at 5:16 pm EDTHello Friend, It is not often a really good telescope for serious beginners comes along. And when it does, well if you are just starting out, this one, fits the bill. I gladly recommend it! http://khanscope.com/productdetails.cfm?productID=5758 It h ...
Dont ask Neil Degrasse- Tyson any questions
February 25th, 2016 at 5:12 pm EDTHello Friend, I went to see Neil Degrasse Tyson give a presentation in Toronto last night and franklyfor the most part is was pure edutainment. Read that as: A little bit of science thrown in, with some stand up comedy for effect. Now I admit to bei ...
Buyer remorse
February 24th, 2016 at 5:13 pm EDTHello Friend, It is a common story we hear over here at khanscope. And heard another one today. Customer buys their kid a telescope during the holidays, at a big box store. Realizes that it is a piece of junk, and the kid loses interest. Now, people ...
"I don't want to learn the night sky", she exclaimed.
February 22nd, 2016 at 5:25 pm EDTHello Friend, As you might imagine, we get all kinds of customers coming through the store,. One lady that came in had an Meade LX10 SCT model telescope, which was a manual telescopewhich she had had for over 15 years. A little bit older now, she j ...
How to get your 13 year old daughter off facebook
February 20th, 2016 at 1:39 pm EDTHello Friend, It's amazing how much time kids (and adults) spend mucking around onFacebook with so called "friends". According to some stats. I read recently, while someone may very have1000 facebook friends, they likely only have about 3-4 real fri ...
A quick and dirty finderscope?
February 19th, 2016 at 4:34 pm EDTHello Friend, Nothing like "quick and dirty", But that also means "hack job". Not so good when you are in a hurry to get something to work. Like trying to find objects in the night sky. Sometimes, you want to get there quickly if you already know th ...
Go Big or go home
February 18th, 2016 at 4:32 pm EDTHello Friend, One of the biggest problems with observing faint deep sky objects, such as galaxies and nebulaesis the you really cannot see a whole lot, with a small aperture telescopes. It is simple physics: You simply gotta have aperture to see ...