2026 will be year full of sky events: two solar eclipses will be followed by two lunar eclipses. We’ll have two supermoons, two micromoons and one blue moon. All the planetary oppositions will happen in the seasons when the nights are longer and planetary conjunctions are sprinkled throughout the year.
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We’ve been watching Jim Johnson’s progress for many years on Flickr and feel he’s broken into the top-tier of imaging with his recent targets.
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The Nagler family would like to express our deepest appreciation for the outpouring of condolence cards, e-mails, social media posts, and phone calls these past few weeks.
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The new 24mm Delos model meets the same design goals as current Delos plus features 22 mm of eye relief. While ideal for eyeglass wearers, the easily adjustable, locking eye guard is included for those who don’t wear eyeglasses. Correct positioning of the eye guard helps position your eye pupil to the telescope’s exit pupil, as well as blocks contrast-robbing stray light from interfering with the view, plus it mitigates dew formation on the eyelens.
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The year 2025 seems to be breezing by. But the sky still holds promises for eclipse, moons, and conjunctions!
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Tele Vue products are so expertly designed and finely crafted that we have no need to constantly replace them with new models. Therefore, many products that find their way into our customer’s hands have an ancestry dating back decades. Here we list some anniversaries for products that you can buy today.
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Jeff Fishman, imaging with his Tele Vue-85 and one-shot-color camera from the Bortle 7 skies of Palm Springs, CA, shared with us these Galaxy images taken during this spring’s Northern hemisphere Galaxy Season.
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Al has always emphasized the astronomical connection in some names for the days of the week. He has a certain fondness for “SATURNday”. Now SATURNday has been recruited to help raise money for Stellafane!
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By the 1970s amateur astronomers realized that the Sun it located right in a “Messier object gap” around the dates of Vernal Equinox (Spring) in late March. This means all 110 Messier objects are on “either side” or “north” of the Sun and available for observation throughout the night — if an observer worked fast enough. Hence, the phrase “Messier Marathon” was invented to describe the all-night attempt.
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PUNCH was successfully launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California! The Mission Operations Center [MOC] at SwRI-Boulder successfully contacted all four spacecraft after launch. Initial indications are that all are healthy and are in Safe-Sun Point mode with the solar arrays deployed! The MOC team will be doing further health and performance assessments via additional passes …
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