The only Canadian stores I have routinely made purchases from were Focus Scientific, Ottawa (I'll miss the store manager, Tristan -- the engine behind their superior customer service) and La Maison De L'Astronomie, Montreal. I did buy a barlow from Kahn Scope in Toronto in 2007, so I h...
Related anecdote from a couple decades ago. There was amassivesnow storm approaching. So severe that Kodak let the entire production work force off early so we could make it home safely before the feet of snow hit. I stopped at a tractor store on the way home, scooted in, looking for ...
The last time I went into his store back in 2016, some sales lackey was working, and I indicated I was interested in picking up a used 8" SCT OTA. He asked what my budget was and I said around $200-300 for a decent example. He literally laughed in my face, and told me I didn...
which would be an easy thing to substitute in place of the shorter version on the Meade GEM for sale here on CL that you helped me identify yesterday ...not that I currently have a 4"+ -aperture refractor to mount
Christmas I bought at a garage sale another older c90 for my daughter .. I will text her and get the number.. she's in Okla.. and I'm in NY . That one has a finderscope attached .. while mine has none .. both came in cases .. both hardly used . ...