New Toy and Friendly Reminder

First, for your calculating pleasure, we have just uploaded a Newtonian
Diagonal Calculator to our website. As my dear partner (and the husband who
better remember what Monday is!) says: "For those interested in Newtonian
diagonal math, I've updated my free Newt. diagonal calculator program. It
now includes illumination falloff calculations for off axis fields. It's
still a little sparse on documentation but it's pretty self explanatory." It
is a free tool to download. (Take a look and let me know if it is buggy!)
www.wodenoptics.com

Okay, speaking of bugs reminds me of flowers! I will give those gentlemen
who are attached a fighting chance by reminding them..... MONDAY IS
VALENTINE'S DAY!

Remember... Flowers for Her = Optics for You

....Or chocolate works well... or jewelry..... or her own scope.... Heck!...

Optics for Her = Optics for You! (That works for me!)

Dawn Baird-Chleborad
www.wodenoptics.com
www.astronerds.com

Sarcasm Box: On

Yeah, right. Let's buy off those unsuspecting women with flowers,
chocolates, and jewelry. They're so shallow that they'll never notice
the difference and will be softened up and allow the family's
hard-earned money to be spent on a bunch of unneeded, space-taking up,
hi-tech equipment.

All it takes is a few minutes purchase and a cheap card, and a few
sentences of romantic nothings and all those TeleVue goodies you've been
lusting after can be yours.

We all know that romance and Feb. 14 are designed only for women, so
"guys" shower the "gals" in your life with tawdry, commercial products
that you've put so much thought and "love" into.

What a great investment... $10 on a heart-shaped box of candies and
you'll be permitted to spend $3,000 on the latest gear. And she'll
never be the wiser.

Starmaster, won't you be my Valentine?

Sarcasm Box: Off

In the end, Dawn's right, of course. Instead of the artifice and
hypocritical gift-giving, buy the scope together and observe together
and you'll live happily ever in a real romance!

Larry Stedman
Vestal