Great for families, young people, and folks who don't want to mess with equipment and complexity. Optical instruments with this rating will have very good optical and mechanical quality. Some initial assembly may be required depending on the type of product. The optics had to be fast, the tube assembly relatively lightweight but strong, and all components needed to be built to withstand the test of time, and hundreds of trips to a dark sky site!īeginner Level - Suited for a wide range of uses, these products are simple to operate and set up. David is an author, lecturer, and discoverer of a plethora of comets and asteroids most notably the co-discovery of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9, the amazing "fuzzy snowball" that broke apart and whose fragments, streaming towards Jupiter like a celestial string of pearls, collided with the giant planet in 1994.Įxplore Scientific wanted to create a durable, rich-field telescope that would produce high contrast, pinpoint star images whether the user was sweeping the heavens for comets, keeping an eye on Jupiter's Great Red Spot, or photographing the Sombrero galaxy or Orion nebula. Levy Comet Hunter is the result of a dream collaboration between long-time amateur astronomer and Explore Scientific founder, Scott Roberts, and one of his life-long heroes, David H. I'd really would like to talk to the person that made the DVD decision and find out the reasons for going that route.The Explore Scientific David H. I would've still paid the $249 for the convenience and flexibility and S&T would have gotten better protection for its IP, presumably a better return by eliminating the cost of the DVD set, and higher visibility and sales that the Kindle store would provide. The physical DVDs will be relegated to the back of the closet ASAP.įor me a better situation would have been for S&T to have put the collection in the Kindle store, where I could have displayed the content on my Kindle, iPad, and PC. For portability, I'll print the content to PDF files. I'll probably do what I've done in the past: rip the DVDs and used a virtual DVD player to display the content. However, the whole DVD thing is "so five years ago" and it's a little disappointing that a magazine that tries to report the latest Astronomical is so mired in the past when it comes to delivering the content. Read about the discovery of quasars, pulsars, and gamma-ray bursts as they happened, and the huge debates that raged (and still rage today) over the nature of these enigmatic objects.įirst of all, I've been waiting for S&T to do something like this and I congratulate them for making at least a start. Here's modern astronomical theory starting when the expanding universe was a new, exciting theory. That's why the 3-by-6-foot bookcase containing bound volumes of all of S&T is the most precious resource in our offices - even more valuable than the thousands of books that have been acquired over the years both by the magazine as a whole and by the individual editors. I don't know if you're excited, but I sure am! For anyone interested in the history of astronomy, the back issues of Sky & Telescope are a goldmine. This set of eight DVD-ROMs includes every issue published from November 1941 through December 2009, plus a unified index for the complete set with full text search for every word ever printed. Click above for full information on the DVD collection - and to order your own copy online.
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