Astronomy Magazine ball fumble (again!)

Reminds me of some of the hilarious ads for
telescopes in the Sears catalog or on
the Home Shopping Network.



Hi:

They've got some good people working for them...Phil Harrington and Dave
Eicher, to name two. However, I sense that a lot of the staff really don't know
much (if anything) about astronomy, having drifted in from the publisher's
other magazines (model railroading and plastic models). The Novemeber issue was
particularly weak, I thought.


Peace,
Rod Mollise
Author of _Choosing and Using a Schmidt Cassegrain Telescope_
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(Rod Mollise) wrote:


Reminds me of some of the hilarious ads for
telescopes in the Sears catalog or on
the Home Shopping Network.



Hi:

They've got some good people working for them...Phil Harrington and Dave
Eicher, to name two. However, I sense that a lot of the staff really don't
know
much (if anything) about astronomy, having drifted in from the publisher's
other magazines (model railroading and plastic models). The Novemeber issue
was
particularly weak, I thought.


Peace,
Rod Mollise
Author of _Choosing and Using a Schmidt Cassegrain Telescope_
Like SCTs and MCTs?
Check-out sct-user, the mailing list for CAT fanciers!
Goto http://members.aol.com/RMOLLISE/index.html

They may have some good people working as stringers, but obviously
nobody who proofs the magazine knows how an alt/az mount is suposed to
work.....or maybe they don't proof all of the magazine, just "some of
it".
Because there isn't a whole lot of astronomy mags out there, I always
try to give Astronomy a chance.....but always wind up disapointed.

Really, who would publish a photo of a Gibralter with the cradle upside
down?

This person acting as the "photographer" rather painfully knows nothing
about astronomy, and whoever proofs the mag obviously has much work to
do.

It ain't no Sky and Telescope!

Rod Mollise wrote:
Reminds me of some of the hilarious ads for
telescopes in the Sears catalog or on
the Home Shopping Network.




Hi:

They've got some good people working for them...Phil Harrington and Dave
Eicher, to name two. However, I sense that a lot of the staff really don't know
much (if anything) about astronomy, having drifted in from the publisher's
other magazines (model railroading and plastic models).

Might be good for the "Observatories on Rails" issue :-)

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"Rod Mollise" wrote in message
...

Reminds me of some of the hilarious ads for
telescopes in the Sears catalog or on
the Home Shopping Network.



Hi:

They've got some good people working for them...Phil Harrington and Dave
Eicher, to name two. However, I sense that a lot of the staff really
don't know
much (if anything) about astronomy, having drifted in from the
publisher's
other magazines (model railroading and plastic models). The Novemeber
issue was
particularly weak, I thought.


Peace,
Rod Mollise

The loco motive heads ruined that magazine long ago. It hasn't been the
same since the Richard Berry days. I keep holding out hope for Dave
Eicher, but I'm afraid it's hopeless...

On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 20:12:37 -0700, "Jan Owen"
wrote:

The loco motive heads ruined that magazine long ago. It hasn't been the
same since the Richard Berry days. I keep holding out hope for Dave
Eicher, but I'm afraid it's hopeless...

I loved the magazine in the 1970s and early 1980s. It had a real
beauty to it. Now, it's like a poor man's Sky and Tel.
-Rich

I loved the magazine in the 1970s and early 1980s. It had a real
beauty to it. Now, it's like a poor man's Sky and Tel.
-Rich

No.....it's a poor man's parody of Sky and Tel!

The loco motive heads ruined that magazine long ago.

Model Railroader itself has been really ruined
by Kalmbach in the last few years. There have
been some interesting discussions about it
on rec.models.railroad

Kalmbach seems intent on replacing knowledgeable
people with so-called "journalists" who don't
really understand the subject, whether it is
astronomy or model railroading. The result
is watered-down, dumbed-down content, with
many obvious errors to those who ARE knowledgeable
on the subject.

The photo of the mis-mounted TeleVue refractor
is also in the Astronomy Magazine Guide to Getting Started
in Astronomy. These were distributed to our club
before astronomy day. We pointed out the error
to them, they did not even respond.

The loco motive heads ruined that magazine long ago.

It's really a shame what has happened to the magazine.
I've been a subscriber since the very first issue (over 30 years!) but, these
days, I find myself leafing through and tossing it.
I doubt that I'll renew when the subscription runs out.

While ASTRONOMY had faded, however,
Sky & Tel just keeps getting better. It's just amazing how good they've become.

Mike Harvey

"Wayne Howell" wrote:
No.....it's a poor man's parody of Sky and Tel!


Astronomy magazine is expensive. I wouldn't add the descriptor "poor man's"
to it.

"JJK" ha scritto nel messaggio
...
"Wayne Howell" wrote:
No.....it's a poor man's parody of Sky and Tel!


Astronomy magazine is expensive. I wouldn't add the descriptor "poor
man's"
to it.

expensive? I buy it now and then at the airport newspaper stand and every
time I'm surprised that it's cheaper than other Italian Astro magazines.
Then I go through it and understand why.....

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