I attended the latter part of the Tele Vue Optics Day at Highpoint Scientific ( http://www.highpointscientific.com/ ) in Montague, New Jersey on Saturday, October 26th. It was my first visit to the store, which is a rather large and impressive establishment just south of Milford, Pennsylvania, in the Pocono Mountains.
The Nagler clan was there, of course, as were new Tele Vue products such as the TV-102i refractor and the 24mm Panoptic. Door prizes were awarded and a variety of food, snacks, and drinks was available.
After sunset a star party was conducted in the parking lot. The skies were fairly dark and light pollution free except for some unshielded lighting on the other side of the highway. The transparency was not very good, however, and after about an hour and half clouds predominated. Nevertheless, I had some fine views through a number of telescopes including Dave Barrett's 24" Tectron (M27, M57, NGC 6543, and other deep-sky fare), a TV-102i (Albireo and M27), a 114mm Vixen ED refractor (the Double Cluster), an 8" Vixen GP-R200S (the Double Cluster), and a 10" Orion XT (M13). Some of the people there were unfamiliar with Stock 2 so I put it into view with the Vixen ED 114SS.
I also had the opportunity to compare an interesting (and surprising) new Tele Vue prototype to a Thousands Oaks version of the same through Dave's telescope.
Dave Mitsky
The Nagler clan was there, of course, as were new Tele Vue products such as the TV-102i refractor and the 24mm Panoptic. Door prizes were awarded and a variety of food, snacks, and drinks was available.
After sunset a star party was conducted in the parking lot. The skies were fairly dark and light pollution free except for some unshielded lighting on the other side of the highway. The transparency was not very good, however, and after about an hour and half clouds predominated. Nevertheless, I had some fine views through a number of telescopes including Dave Barrett's 24" Tectron (M27, M57, NGC 6543, and other deep-sky fare), a TV-102i (Albireo and M27), a 114mm Vixen ED refractor (the Double Cluster), an 8" Vixen GP-R200S (the Double Cluster), and a 10" Orion XT (M13). Some of the people there were unfamiliar with Stock 2 so I put it into view with the Vixen ED 114SS.
I also had the opportunity to compare an interesting (and surprising) new Tele Vue prototype to a Thousands Oaks version of the same through Dave's telescope.
Dave Mitsky
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