A sorry state of affairs

It is a sad commentary on the state of things and a sorry day for CN Lab Reports when all you need to have accomplished to be ranked by CN as "One of the worlds most
experienced binoviewer reviewers" is to have one published review on their website.This statement would be hilarious if I didn't think someone was actually serious about the description. Alan Dyer,Ed Ting,and Todd Gross,immediately come to mind as observers with decades more experience with binoviewing and unbiased critical evaluation skills. This sort of circus sideshow barking ill becomes CN Lab Reports and does nothing to establish credibility for the accuracy of their reports, present or future. Jim's no doubt a fine fellow, but as someone who has only recently returned to astronomy after a 30 year absence 22months ago, he hardly has the decades of experience and countless reviews with proper application of scientific
analysis used to form an opinion to be considered "One of the worlds most experienced binoviewer reviewers". Less hyperbole used to announce a new review on CN would inspire
more confidence in the scientifc veracity and accuracy of their reports.

Your history is showing......did you read the report?

I truly appreciate your comment above , by the way, but just to be accurate, I've only studied binoviewers for 9 or 10 years now. (Got into astronomy at age 5 over 40 years ago, did mostly solar 1977-1994, back to deep sky and planets 1994, binoviewers 1995)

I'm going to do so some more work with them this summer, but at this point in time, there are many of you that have exceeded my expertise in rating them. I just can provide a keen eye, and a good additional "data point".

I do appreciate it though since at one point, I was one of the few people that really understood, or rather, publicized the stupid magnification problem that rendered 100% of the binoviewers nearly useless for many users.

I'm tickled silly at the recent advances of Denkmeier, Televue, Siebert, Markus, A/P and others have made in that regard. (focus travel and magnification) I also found it amusing that Celestron is still marketing their old-style binoviewer in this day and age of "the good stuff"

I really take my hats off to all of your binoviewer enthusiasts that picked up the ball and ran with it -

Let me ask you all a question.. I've never really had the opportunity to compare binotelescopes of slightly smaller aperture with a binoviewer in a slightly larger scope. I would think the views wouldn't differ all that much but binotelescope people claim otherwise. Sorry if this has been brought up recently. Anybody?

-Todd Gross
WHDH TV
Boston