Month: January 2018
2018: Solar and Lunar Phenomena Overview

First, some bad-news for all those newly confirmed “eclipse chasers” from the Great American Eclipse in 2017: there will be no total solar or annular eclipses this year — just some partials.
New Year’s Message from Tele Vue Optics
#televue40: Our Scopes
At the beginning of 2017, in honor of Tele Vue’s 40th year, we asked you to tag your social media images taken with or taken of Tele Vue equipment with the hashtag #televue40. You did so and there are too many images to highlight them all, but we’ll bring you a few at a time though these blog posts.
People are rightfully proud of the heirloom quality build and performance of our scopes. This post looks at the various images of Tele Vue scopes posted on social media feeds this year.
A recent favorite of ours was this painting of a Tele Vue TV-85 by Instagram user @h.chiharandy.
h.chiharandy painting of solitary visual observer setup #televue #tv85 #ethos #panoramic in the field. https://t.co/xiaeKNIJVc#televue40 pic.twitter.com/G8duzr4c5Z
— Tele Vue Optics, Inc (@TeleVueOptics) November 2, 2017
#televue40: Deep Space Objects
At the beginning of 2017, in honor of Tele Vue’s 40th year, we asked you to tag your social media images taken with or taken of Tele Vue equipment with the hashtag #televue40. You did so and there are too many images to highlight them all, but we’ll bring you a few at a time though these blog posts.

This installment features gorgeous images of Deep-Sky Objects (DSOs) taken with Tele Vue hardware. Some of the images are in Hydrogen-alpha (b&w) and others full-color. Exposure times range from hours (one night’s work) to over a day (several nights work)!