Equipment/Optics

Meade's big MAK has very few drawbacks. Let's get rid of them!

Have you oiled your telescope today?

Yes, Tommy, there is a good 4" short focus achromat.

A few specs of dust on your CCD chip can easily be removed with a flat field, but what happens when the dust grains out number the stars? Cleaning your imaging chip doesn't have to be an ordeal with PecPads and Eclipse Cleaning solution.

A perfect 16" mirror? If not, its pretty darn close!

How far away can your telescope resolve newspaper print?

Any serious observer normally has at least half a dozen telescope eyepieces. But if you had to limit yourself to just one eyepiece, what should it be?

"The trouble with standards," someone said, "is that there are so many of them to choose from."

The Author of "How to Use a Computerized Telescope" proposes a solution for "Old Eyes"

A heartwarming story about me, my Starmaster, an evil magnet, Carl Zambuto and why I am a lifetime ZOC owner.

It's the old story about the tortoise and the hare, replayed with computerized telescope controllers.