Subject: Mission to Mars; Thanks Neil Armstrong!
Mission to Mars; Thanks Neil Armstrong!
October 13th, 2015 at 2:22 pm EDTHello 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 EDTHello 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 EDTHello 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 EDTHello 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 EDTFinally, 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 i ...
Not Elvis, not Beer but water on Mars
September 28th, 2015 at 5:16 pm EDTHello 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 ...
Blood Moon Sunday last minute update
September 27th, 2015 at 4:46 pm EDTHello Friend Here is some last minute Eclipse viewing information, you might want to check out. 1) Want to better understand what is going on with the eclipse? Check out this short CTV Interview with Randy Atwood, Executive director of the RASC. http ...
Pope names US Jesuit Priest to run Vatican Observatory
September 24th, 2015 at 3:50 pm EDTHello Friend, A few days I wrote about how superstitious people in Hawaii were interfering with the constructionprogress of the (TMT) Thirty Metre Telescope, atop Mauna Kea. I received some flak about that email, from several folks who felt that sc ...
He was Smarter than the average bear
September 23rd, 2015 at 2:11 pm EDTHello Friend, A sad day in baseball today. Catcher Yogi Berra (Yankees) passed away yesterday at the ripe old age of 90. Did you know that the cartoon character Yogi Bear was actually named after him? Berra was also known for his many quotes. Here a ...
Why religion and the Thirty Metre Telescope in Hawaii don't mix
September 22nd, 2015 at 4:35 pm EDTHello Friend, As ground broke recently on the (TMT) Thirty Metre Telescope project recently, in Mauna Kea, Hawaiithere have been several groups, primarily religious and native, protesting the land as being sacredand that this instrument should not b ...