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The Meade 70AZ-AR Altazimuth Refractor Altazimuth Refractor is great for families, kids and gifts. Lens diameter is approximately 2.75 inches. This will let you see craters on the Moon, the rings of Saturn, the cloud belts of Jupiter along with several of its moons, and detect countless star clust...

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In 1947, a World War II fighter pilot named Don Penning started a small shop that made money selling hobby cameras to Camp Pendleton Marines. Over the years, the shop changed hands and locations and grew. Oceanside Photo and Telescope, better known as OPT, now has annual revenue in the tens of millio...

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If you are looking for a quality scope to use for your stargazing activities, you might want to consider Orion telescopes. Produced and manufactured by the Orion Telescope company, it is a type of refractor that utilizes curved lenses meant to reflect any image. [url=http://telescope-for-u.blo...

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Industrial Archaeologist reverse engineers the past with his scale and virtual models Bill Gould has built a 1/12 scale model a 3D CAD model of the 9" Dorpat telescope, built in Estonia in 1824 by Joseph von Fraunhofer for the Dorpat Observatory, which at the time was one of the largest telescop...

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Many city-based amateur astronomers believe you need to dark country skies to see faint deep-sky objects like galaxies and nebulae. But if you live in a decent-sized city it takes time and energy (and more than a few dollars) to truck your telescope out an hour or so outside of the city. And the harder y...

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HEQ5 PRO Polar Scope Calibration Click to Play | View Details Here's how to calibrate the date circle for accurate polar alignment. The Skywatcher manual is nonsensical on this item. It is difficult to put the process into type or even words, hence the video. Sky-Watcher Pro mounts have been design...

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A rare telescope once used by the U.S. Life Saving Service to watch for shipwrecks off the Down East coast of Maine soon will have a new home as part of the maritime exhibit at Cutler's Little River Lighthouse. The rare brass telescope, presented to Tim Harrison, co-chairman of the Friends of Little Ri...

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Meade Ds-2130 Telescope Unboxing Click to Play | View Details MEADE 5" DS-2130 Lens Clear Aperture: 127 (5.1 inches) Focal Length: 1000mm F Ratio: 7.7 Mount: AutoStar Controller with 1,400 object database. A fully "go to" telescope Eyepieces: Meade Super Plossl Series 4000 Ey...

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Spotting Scope with Tripod * Professional quality spotting scope * Ideal for both stargazing and nature watching * Magnification: 25x - 75x * Lens diameter (mm): 90 * Exceptionally clear view due to, BaK-4 prisms and multicoated lenses * Max. field of view: 19m / 1000m (at 75x) ...

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Today's "Word of the Day" is ferrofluid. It's what chemists call a suspension of extremely small iron-based particles in some kind of liquid. The result is a room-temperature fluid with magnetic properties. So why are you reading about this here and not in the Chemistry Junkies Forum? B...

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In honour of the telescope's 400th anniversary, we here at Wired.com want to see your favourite telescope photo. Whether it's constellations, your telescope from home or a giant observatory you visited last summer, show us your best tribute to this epic invention. [url=http://www.wired.com/s...

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A telescope believed to have belonged to George Washington, and last offered as such in 1920, will be sold at a Fine Furniture & Decorative Arts Auction scheduled for Oct. 5-6 by Leslie Hindman Auctioneers. It is expected to fetch $10,000 or more. The spyglass has been consigned by the renowned I...

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Albert Einstein's long-lost telescope, forgotten for decades in a Jerusalem storage shed, goes on display this week after three years and $10,000 spent restoring the relic. Read more

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Things To Think About Before Buying A Used Telescope[url=http://www.buytelescope.co.uk/buy-telescopes/used-telescopes-for-sale-things-to-think-about-before-buyin...

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A new high-quality short-tube refractor from William Optics - The Megrez 90 APO . FLT 90 Doublet APO f/6.9 air-spaced FPL-53 glass objective Focal Ratio F/6.9 Focal Length 621mm Aperture 90mm Focuser 2" to 1.25" adapter [url=http://www.williamoptics.com/te...

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	Meade 70AZ-AR Refractor Meade Refractor (Preview) The Meade 70AZ-AR Altazimuth Refractor Altazimuth Refractor is great for families, kids and gifts. Lens diameter is approximately 2.75 inches. This will let you see craters on the Moon, the rings of Saturn, the cloud belts of Jupiter along with several of its moons, and detect countless star clust...	Blobrana	0	Jan 27 22:32 2009 by Blobrana
	Oceanside Photo and Telescope (Preview) In 1947, a World War II fighter pilot named Don Penning started a small shop that made money selling hobby cameras to Camp Pendleton Marines. Over the years, the shop changed hands and locations and grew. Oceanside Photo and Telescope, better known as OPT, now has annual revenue in the tens of millio...	Blobrana	0	Jan 25 14:29 2009 by Blobrana
	Orion Telescopes (Preview) If you are looking for a quality scope to use for your stargazing activities, you might want to consider Orion telescopes. Produced and manufactured by the Orion Telescope company, it is a type of refractor that utilizes curved lenses meant to reflect any image. [url=http://telescope-for-u.blo...	Blobrana	0	Jan 24 23:32 2009 by Blobrana
	Dorpat Refractor Refractor (Preview) Industrial Archaeologist reverse engineers the past with his scale and virtual models Bill Gould has built a 1/12 scale model a 3D CAD model of the 9" Dorpat telescope, built in Estonia in 1824 by Joseph von Fraunhofer for the Dorpat Observatory, which at the time was one of the largest telescop...	Blobrana	0	Jan 23 16:04 2009 by Blobrana
	Urban Astronomy (Preview) Many city-based amateur astronomers believe you need to dark country skies to see faint deep-sky objects like galaxies and nebulae. But if you live in a decent-sized city it takes time and energy (and more than a few dollars) to truck your telescope out an hour or so outside of the city. And the harder y...	Blobrana	0	Jan 9 11:20 2009 by Blobrana
	Skywatcher HEQ5 PRO mount Mount (Preview) HEQ5 PRO Polar Scope Calibration Click to Play \| View Details Here's how to calibrate the date circle for accurate polar alignment. The Skywatcher manual is nonsensical on this item. It is difficult to put the process into type or even words, hence the video. Sky-Watcher Pro mounts have been design...	Blobrana	0	Jan 8 19:25 2009 by Blobrana
	Bardou & Son telescope (Preview) A rare telescope once used by the U.S. Life Saving Service to watch for shipwrecks off the Down East coast of Maine soon will have a new home as part of the maritime exhibit at Cutler's Little River Lighthouse. The rare brass telescope, presented to Tim Harrison, co-chairman of the Friends of Little Ri...	Blobrana	0	Jan 7 01:25 2009 by Blobrana
	Meade DS-2130 reflector telescope Meade (Preview) Meade Ds-2130 Telescope Unboxing Click to Play \| View Details MEADE 5" DS-2130 Lens Clear Aperture: 127 (5.1 inches) Focal Length: 1000mm F Ratio: 7.7 Mount: AutoStar Controller with 1,400 object database. A fully "go to" telescope Eyepieces: Meade Super Plossl Series 4000 Ey...	Blobrana	0	Dec 26 01:31 2008 by Blobrana
	Spotting Scopes (Preview) Spotting Scope with Tripod * Professional quality spotting scope * Ideal for both stargazing and nature watching * Magnification: 25x - 75x * Lens diameter (mm): 90 * Exceptionally clear view due to, BaK-4 prisms and multicoated lenses * Max. field of view: 19m / 1000m (at 75x) ...	Blobrana	0	Dec 8 18:18 2008 by Blobrana
	Ferrofluid Telescope Mirrors (Preview) Today's "Word of the Day" is ferrofluid. It's what chemists call a suspension of extremely small iron-based particles in some kind of liquid. The result is a room-temperature fluid with magnetic properties. So why are you reading about this here and not in the Chemistry Junkies Forum? B...	Blobrana	0	Nov 8 20:24 2008 by Blobrana
	Favourite Telescope Photos (Preview) In honour of the telescope's 400th anniversary, we here at Wired.com want to see your favourite telescope photo. Whether it's constellations, your telescope from home or a giant observatory you visited last summer, show us your best tribute to this epic invention. [url=http://www.wired.com/s...	Blobrana	0	Oct 2 18:17 2008 by Blobrana
	George Washington Telescope (Preview) A telescope believed to have belonged to George Washington, and last offered as such in 1920, will be sold at a Fine Furniture & Decorative Arts Auction scheduled for Oct. 5-6 by Leslie Hindman Auctioneers. It is expected to fetch $10,000 or more. The spyglass has been consigned by the renowned I...	Blobrana	0	Sep 28 18:01 2008 by Blobrana
	Einstein telescope (Preview) Albert Einstein's long-lost telescope, forgotten for decades in a Jerusalem storage shed, goes on display this week after three years and $10,000 spent restoring the relic. Read more	Blobrana	0	Sep 23 18:42 2008 by Blobrana
	Secondhand Telescopes (Preview) Things To Think About Before Buying A Used Telescope[url=http://www.buytelescope.co.uk/buy-telescopes/used-telescopes-for-sale-things-to-think-about-before-buyin...	Blobrana	0	Sep 22 20:58 2008 by Blobrana
	MEGREZ 90 APO Refractor (Preview) A new high-quality short-tube refractor from William Optics - The Megrez 90 APO . FLT 90 Doublet APO f/6.9 air-spaced FPL-53 glass objective Focal Ratio F/6.9 Focal Length 621mm Aperture 90mm Focuser 2" to 1.25" adapter [url=http://www.williamoptics.com/te...	Blobrana	0	Sep 14 00:51 2008 by Blobrana
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