November Planetary Events!
November, from the Latin novem for nine, is the eleventh month of the year. The name comes from a time when
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Tele Vue-85: Imaging Under New York City Light Dome!
Mauri Rosenthal’s Tele Vue 2.5x Powermate solar images appeared in our Here Comes the Sun! blog last December. Imaging from
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Tele Vue-85: Imaging the Skies Over Queensland Australia!
The combination of Tele Vue-85 APO refractor and Tele Vue 0.8x Reducer/Flattener (TRF-2008) create a potent, highly portable, flat/wide-field (480mm
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Rodger W. Gordon’s Thoughts on the Tele Vue-85 and Questar 3.5″
Rodger W. Gordon has been an amateur astronomer since 1952 and has written over 300 articles for various amateur astronomy
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Shelter in Space
Christmas Tree Nebula at Amboy Crater by flickr user William Allen. All rights reserved. Used by permission. Astronomy in the
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Astro Sketching the Universe!
We posted some Instagram sketches of the July 2019 Total Solar Eclipse from Chile last month made by Pekka Rautajoki
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Tele Vue APO Design and Build “Secrets”
Over the years, we’ve seen conversational topics in online amateur circles that repeatedly crop up concerning the definition of apochromatic
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Night Vision in the UK: Seize the Night!
This week’s guest blog post is written by Gavin Orpin. The blog came about as a result of a discussion
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Chris Owen: Tele Vue-85 Narrowband Imager
This guest blog post is by Tele Vue-85 owner Chris Owen. Chris is a physician in Orange County California,
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Happy Holidays from Comet 46P/Wirtanen
At only 30-lunar distances from Earth, Comet 46P/Wirtanen brightened to magnitude 3.6 as it brushed by our planet on December 16th
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