2020 – Tele Vue Optics, Inc. Blog

The “Best” of 2020

For Tele Vue, January 2020 began optimistically: our Apollo 11mm Commemorative eyepiece had started shipping in mid-December and we innocently

The Jupiter and Saturn “Great Conjunction” was well-publicized and well-imaged. Even though the closest approach between the planets was Monday,

Great Conjunction: Countdown to December 21st! On December 16th, Jupiter and Saturn will be a full-Moon’s width apart at dusk

Tele Vue Sells Out of Limited Edition Apollo 11 Eyepiece! Last year, in honor of the 50th anniversary of the

According to a recent Solar Activity Update by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Space Weather Prediction Center, “Solar

Is it just us or did it seem that 2020 was a longer than usual year? Yet while both the

Tele Vue Optics was founded by an amateur astronomer, Al Nagler, and it is no surprise that amateur astronomers have

Even though we’re past the point of closest approach and opposition, Mars continues to loom large in the sky and

It was March 19th of this year when we published a blog post, Shelter in Space, inspired by an image

We’ve reached the peak of the current Mars observing season with the planet closest to Earth:62-million km or 38.5-million miles