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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The NASA payload will include the PUNCH mission that contains three Tele Vue Optical Lens Assemblies.
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This August, my wife Judi and I made our annual pilgrimage to the Stellafane convention in Vermont, a tradition we’ve kept alive since the 1950s
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We’re in the middle of 2024 already (quo tempore fugit!) making this a good time for a retrospective look at our most popular blogs of 2023. Que the harp music …
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Our old catch-phrase “Tops in the Field” speaks to the quality of our gear in the observing field. We celebrate
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What do Google, the Human Genome Project, Large Hadron Collider, asteroid Bennu, and Tele Vue have in common? Read our
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It’s time for our yearly look back at which Tele Vue blog posts our readers showed most interest in based
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We were saddened to learn last week of the passing of a veteran eclipse chaser and friend of Tele Vue
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This week we celebrate our 2022 product anniversaries and wind our way through the history of Tele Vue and the
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Welcome to 2022! In this posting, we’ll examine how the pandemic impacted amateur astronomy this past year and review our
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