2021: A Year of Ups and Downs
Welcome to 2022! In this posting, we’ll examine how the pandemic impacted amateur astronomy this past year and review our
Read moreWelcome to 2022! In this posting, we’ll examine how the pandemic impacted amateur astronomy this past year and review our
Read moreWhat a way to end the year! We had the 19 November 2021 (almost total) Lunar Eclipse followed two weeks
Read moreHave you been gearing up and packing for the December 4th total solar eclipse? If not, you are not alone!
Read moreNovember, from the Latin novem for nine, is the eleventh month of the year. The name comes from a time when
Read moreBack in March 2019 this blog featured a Tele Vue-NP127is APO refractor image gallery by astrophotographer Jerry Macon. All those
Read moreIn this installment, we travel to Kitt Peak in the Arizona-Sonoran Desert to “speckle” binary stars and finally learn what
Read moreBack in December 2018, we featured some spectacular wide-field, deep-sky images by Diego Cartes Saavedra in Chile. All the images
Read moreAn “opposition” happens on the day that Earth and an outer planet line up on the same side of the
Read moreIn the last blog, we covered the history of the Newtonian reflector, its inherent aberrations, and how Tele Vue’s
Read moreInvented from lenses used to make eyeglasses, refractors were the first telescopes when introduced in the 1600s. However, the early
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