Subject: I was a little skeptical at first
I was a little skeptical at first
October 26th, 2015 at 4:06 pm ESTHello Friend, This past weekend I visited the annual Toronto art show, that was in town. No doubt about it, there are some brilliant artists around and a lot of international talentwhich was on display at this show. Collectors were buying stuff like ...
Is the hobby of amateur astronomy dying?
October 23rd, 2015 at 3:27 pm ESTHello Friend, I must admit to wondering about this the past few years. Seems that whenever I go to star parties and other astronomical events, it is pretty much the same faces,getting older, a few more grey hairs...(just like your's truly). And the ...
Alien spaceships accelerating at warp speed?
October 21st, 2015 at 4:02 pm ESTHello Friend, Yesterday I told you about the star called KIC 8462852, and the very strange and yet to be explained activity going on around it. Actually, it was not that long ago that some had suggested that very powerful gamma-ray bursts(GRBs), ...
Strangest star in the Universe?
October 20th, 2015 at 3:45 pm ESTHello Friend, No doubt you have heard about KIC 8462852. Seems a couple of postdoctoral graduates, one at Yale, Tabby Boyajian and Penn State astronomerJason Wright have recently noted a very strange and bizarre giant structure orbitingthat particu ...
Mission to Mars; Thanks Neil Armstrong!
October 13th, 2015 at 2:22 pm ESTHello Friend. Well let me first say that I have been quiet lately, because I have been down on the east coastin beautiful Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. Now I am not exploring my celtic roots or anything like that,, (cos I don't have any) but I learn'tt ...
Introducing the Meade LX70 series
October 5th, 2015 at 4:00 pm ESTHello Friend, Well just when you think you have seen it all, along comes another cracker to throw things for a loop. Now he had this nutter int to the store recently, who claimed that the earth was only 100 years old. Now the guy claimed he was not ...
New! Mallincam imagingviewing on a low budget
October 2nd, 2015 at 4:17 pm ESTHello Friend, If you have been one of those people under the impression that buying a Mallincam CCD camerawas too expensive, well take a look again. The new MallinCam Micro Series camera is a small video ccd camera capable of 1/100,000 all the way u ...
The light hearted astronomer strikes out
October 1st, 2015 at 4:47 pm ESTHello Friend, If you have been in this hobby for a while, then you might remember a book written many yearsago by amateur astronomer, Ken Fulton. The book was called the Light Hearted Astronomer, and it was a somewhat amusing rantabout his experien ...
Meade LX600, Precision with ease
September 30th, 2015 at 6:00 pm ESTFinally, for the first time ever, the Meade LX600 Telescope is on Sale! ﾠThis is the instrument that Meade designed and built after many years of ﾠcustomer feedback... ﾠ with the features that you wanted in an SCT instrument. ﾠ Available in ...
Not Elvis, not Beer but water on Mars
September 28th, 2015 at 5:16 pm ESTHello Friend, No question about it. Nasa's announcement about the discovery of water on Mars (and this time, it's the real deal) is a big one. A real game changer, and imagine the possibility of some kind of bacteria or life forms. Not so far off f ...