2021 – Tele Vue Optics, Inc. Blog

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

What a way to end the year! We had the 19 November 2021 (almost total) Lunar Eclipse followed two weeks

Have you been gearing up and packing for the December 4th total solar eclipse? If not, you are not alone!

November, from the Latin novem for nine, is the eleventh month of the year. The name comes from a time when

Back in March 2019 this blog featured a Tele Vue-NP127is APO refractor image gallery by astrophotographer Jerry Macon. All those

In this installment, we travel to Kitt Peak in the Arizona-Sonoran Desert to “speckle” binary stars and finally learn what

Back in December 2018, we featured some spectacular wide-field, deep-sky images by Diego Cartes Saavedra in Chile. All the images

An “opposition” happens on the day that Earth and an outer planet line up on the same side of the

In the last blog, we covered the history of the Newtonian reflector, its inherent aberrations, and how Tele Vue’s

Invented from lenses used to make eyeglasses, refractors were the first telescopes when introduced in the 1600s. However, the early