Smart Telescopes: The Final Frontier

November 19, 2025

I read about these "Smart Telescopes" with interest in my June issue of Astronomy Magazine. That's got to be expensive, I thought. Surprisingly, not!

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Judgment vs. Observation

I want to talk about judgment vs. observation for a moment here. Many of us, myself included, have spent a lot of time judging others. Let's face it - it's fun. It's satisfying. It's also kind of mean, but we knew that. What about learning from something we're judging - it then becomes an observation. What's the difference? Here's how to sort it out, as the British say.

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Consider...

Eventually you will reach a point when you stop lying about your age and start bragging about it.

-Will Rogers

Did you know...

Light doesn't always travel at the speed of light.  The speed of light is only constant in a vacuum.  When it passes through matter, it can slow down.  Photons (light particles) pass through wtaer at 3/4 the regular speed of light.  Light was once slowed down to 38mph!

Thinking in a foreign language makes decisions more rational.

In Oklahoma, it's illegal to wrestle a bear.

SOS does not stand for Save Our Ship, or anything at all.  It is simply the easiest code to transmit via Morse code.