Subject: An epic mind blowing week!
An epic mind blowing week!
July 17th, 2015 at 4:00 pm ESTHello Friend,. This past week has been absolutely epic. Imagine....the flyby of Pluto by New Horizons. That spacecraft travelled more than three billion milesover the past nine years to reach the outermost of the solar system. I mentioned this to o ...
An apology from Celestron
July 15th, 2015 at 4:06 pm ESTHello Friend, Recently, the good people at Celestron decided it was time to upgrade their entire software and hardware system. Now in anyone's books, that is always a difficult thing to to, and keep running business as usual. And it turns out that ...
Discoverer of Pluto riding high
July 14th, 2015 at 4:01 pm ESTHello Friend, Astronomer Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto back in 1930, at the ripe old age of 24. He passed away in 1998. He was 90 years old. Now when the astronomical union a few years ago decided to demote Pluto to a minor planet,I'm sure Tombaug ...
The Search for Bigfoot continues
July 13th, 2015 at 3:29 pm ESTHello Friend, The process of searching for Bigfoot is called "squatching". I spend a fair bit of time in the north, and while I have had close encounters with bearsand the odd moose, never ran into anything even resembling a Sasquatch. However, we ...
The saddest telescope of all
July 10th, 2015 at 4:13 pm ESTHello Friend, Recently an older gentleman came in and told us about this experience with his first telescope. He had purchased a telescope several years ago, and took it out once or twice and then put it awayinto the closet. Seems he could not quit ...
The folly of young earth creationists
July 9th, 2015 at 4:22 pm ESTHello Friend, While in beautiful Nova Scoti recently, I visited the Joggins fossils cliffs, a UNESCO world heritage sight. If you have seen the recent television series, COSMOS with Neil Degrasse Tyson, who remarks inthe opening scenes: "There are pl ...
By Jove, he's done it again!
July 8th, 2015 at 10:11 am ESTHello Friend, While at the General assembly in Halifax, I ran into my old colleague Eric Briggs. Eric worked at Khanscope several years ago, until he shuffled off to Buffalo, NY where henow resides. He had a grin like a chesire cat. And when Er ...
SkyNews magazine sold
July 7th, 2015 at 1:48 pm ESTHello Friend, One of the more interesting events to occur during the RASC Annual Conference held in Halifax,NS this past weekend was the announcement by Terry Dickinson, editor of SkyNews of the saleof the publication to the Royal Astronomical Socie ...
Irish Spring soap failure
July 2nd, 2015 at 9:40 pm ESTHello Friend, Halifax, Nova Scotia A lovely port city, that also happens to be the home of the Alexander Keith brewery. It's been many years since I was last here, so I will definitely have to take a tourof the local Keith's beer distillery. Now les ...
The end is near
June 30th, 2015 at 4:35 pm ESTHello Friend, Yes, the end is near for this: Today in fact: ﾠCelestron Dads & Grads Promotion! ﾠ ﾠHow about a special gift for your recent grad? or Remember Dad on Father's day? Savings on our ever popular,ﾠ ﾠ Celestron NexStar Series. ...