Subject: Meet Al Nagler from TeleVue Optics
Meet Al Nagler from TeleVue Optics
June 23rd, 2015 at 11:11 am EDTHello Friend, Al Nagler is a man who literally revolutionized the amateur astronomy telescope market, when he first unveiledthe Nagler eyepiece back in 1980. Up until then, telescope eyepieces had narrow field of view, and small apparent fields. ...
Dads & Grads sale coming to an end
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Royal Astronomical Society of Canada designation doesn't offer any protected status
June 19th, 2015 at 4:25 pm EDTHello Friend, What's the world coming too, one's simply got to ask these days. Now an official dark sky preserve area is going to get the boot, thanks to this plan to go ahead and build 150 wind turbines, with flashing red beacons,for air transport ...
Ghosts of the Dunlap Observatory
June 18th, 2015 at 4:33 pm EDTHello Friend, I'll preface by saying I don't really believe in ghosts. However, I have had a few spooky experiences in my life. One night, several years ago,I was at the Dunlap observatory, (DDO) and the telescope operator Heide Debondwas on duty, a ...
An uncredited lady of science
June 17th, 2015 at 11:57 am EDTHello Friend, Randall Rosenfeld is the archivist and historian of the Royal astronomical society of Canada,and he made a very interesting observation in his presentation this past Saturday at the David Dunlap Observatory (DDO). He gave credit due to ...
More on the David Dunlap Observatory
June 16th, 2015 at 4:11 pm EDTHello Friend, Several years ago, I recall what fun it was to go to the Dunlap observatory on a Saturday night, and set uptelescopes on the lawn, so members of the public who were taking tours of the observatory, when it wasstill owned by the Univers ...
David Dunlap Observatory turns 80!
June 15th, 2015 at 4:53 pm EDTHello Friend, This past Saturday, I was visited the David Dunlap Observatory (DDO) here in Richmond Hill, Ontario to take part in their 80th Anniversary celebrations. It truly was a splendid day, as we listened to several former staff members and d ...
Starry nights for Dads & Grads
June 12th, 2015 at 3:41 pm EDTBecome a real backyard astronomer with the Meade ETX90 Portable Observatory! For over 30 years, it has been a passion of Meade Instruments to create the finest Meade Telescope available for the astronomy enthusiast. The remarkable Meade ETX90 Portab ...
Horror of horrors
June 11th, 2015 at 3:26 pm EDTHello Friend, Many years ago, I was born at Hammersmith Hospital in London, England. Not far away the Hammer Film studios were located, where many gory epics were filmed starringnone other than the actor Christopher Lee, who has just now passed away ...
Do you believe in strophotography Voodoo?
June 10th, 2015 at 4:26 pm EDTHello Friend, There is some mysterious voodoo involved around astrophotography. If you hang around a bunch of astroimagers and listen to them talk, that is whatyou might end up thinking. The belief that you need umpteen thousands of dollars worth o ...