Subject: Rest in peace, Leonard Nimoy
Rest in peace, Leonard Nimoy
February 27th, 2015 at 1:22 pm EDTHello Friend, Space the final frontier.... It's a sad day indeed for trekkies and Star Trek fans everywhere. Actor Leonard Nimoy passed away today, at the age of 83. Of course you might recall where Spock dies in the original Star Trek movie, where h ...
Introducing Meade Mega Wide Angle Series
February 26th, 2015 at 4:31 pm EDTHello Friend, Meade Instruments has been working on some cool stuff lately, and here are some great new eyepieces thatthey have just released. Introducing, The Meade Mega Wide Angle Series. I've always said that the eyepiece is the other important ...
Where did everybody go?
February 25th, 2015 at 4:25 pm EDTHello Friend, It happens every year. From about January 1st to the 3rd week in February, my local gym is packed with a lot of new folkswho have made a resolution to "get into shape" for the new year. So of course it get's quite busy, and sometimes ...
50 shades of stupidity
February 24th, 2015 at 1:55 pm EDTHello Friend, The first time I heard about the book '50 shades of grey' was when I walked into the hair salon in our plazawhere our store is located several months ago. The owner had this set of 3 books, lined up on a shelf, in a box. Of course bei ...
An amateur astronomer that has owned over 100 telescopes
February 23rd, 2015 at 3:49 pm EDTHello Friend, Why would anyone need to own over 100 amateur telescopes?Well I wish there were more customers like this fellow, Friend :) I dropped by the store Sunday afternoon, and ran into a fellow I had not seen in a little while,but I've known ...
Why I love this winter...
February 21st, 2015 at 4:20 pm EDTsaid nobody, Friend. Indeed, it seems that many an amateur astronomer was out last night and a number of you got somenice photo's of the Venus, Mars and Lunar conjunction. Well done! Heck, even a woman I dated many years ago, who had zero interest ...
Polar vortex? Gimme a break
February 20th, 2015 at 10:41 am EDTHello Friend, Shiver me timbers! Well I can't imagine there is anyone doing much observing right now in Northern Ontario,with the Polar vortex hanging around these parts. In fact, it's just downright cold in many parts of Canada and the northeaster ...
Still struggling with your telescope?
February 18th, 2015 at 3:12 pm EDTHello Friend, You know the old saying; a picture is worth a 1000 words. And sometimes that also applies with learning how to use your telescope. If you can't make heads or tails on how to use your instrument, or you arestruggling with some aspect of ...
Don't be afraid of trying something new
February 17th, 2015 at 10:05 am EDTHello Friend, As I was sipping on a Rum Punch at the beach bar yesterday, I got to thinking about how sometimes how easy it is to fall into an observing rut. By that I mean, a tendency to look at the same objects, because we are familiar with theman ...
Observing Orion in a t shirt during the winter
February 13th, 2015 at 9:35 am EDTHello Friend, There is nothing quite like observing Orion in a t-shirt.And the way to do it, is to head down south to the Caribbean.Which is exactly what I did. Barbados that is.It's nice to from -28 to 28 degrees.And to see the night time sky, from ...