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Roadside Astronomers - Recap of Greg and Scott's travels - Episode ONE
Roadside Astronomers

Roadside Astronomers - Recap of Greg and Scott's travels - Episode ONE

  Get an inside personal glimpse at what it's like for Scott Roberts and Greg Bragg as they travel across the United States attending various star parties and astronomy events. This is the first ep...

2018 Starlight Festival2018 Starlight Festival Promotional Video - featuring Tom Meneghini

2018 Starlight Festival Promotional Video - featuring Tom Meneghini

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2018 Starlight Festival2018 Starlight Festival Promotional Video - featuring Elizabeth Gast

2018 Starlight Festival Promotional Video - featuring Elizabeth Gast

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Shot Show2018 Shot Show Recap

2018 Shot Show Recap

Chris Klein and videographer Jon Baker takes us on a journey through the Shot Show 2018. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.

Okie-Tex Star PartyWill Young creates a nice video on "What It's like to attend a Star Party"

Will Young creates a nice video on "What It's like to attend a Star Party"

What's it like to attend a Star Party? Our good friend Will Young (https://www.facebook.com/will.young.58) created a video recap of what it looks like to attend a Star Party. The Okie-Tex Star Part...

TVScott on QVC!!!

Scott on QVC!!!

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Peach State Star Gaze 2017 - FPL-53 Image by Steve Siedentop

Peach State Star Gaze in the Deerlick Astronomy Village near Sharon and Washington GA. The weather was amazing. Five straight nights of great dark skies. The dew was a little heavy at times, but t...

Okie-Tex 2017 - Milky Way

Okie-Tex in Kenton, OK. OMG! Amazing night skies once again! This year, we fought some wind as well as a day and evening of rain, but when it was clear, it was incredible. If you are looking for D...

September 16: BRESSER Hunters Extravaganza

POSTPONED UNTIL SUMMER 2018. Product giveaways and hunting seminars. Big Game Bow Hunting expert and Advocate for Women Hunters, Helen Butt will be giving a seminar at Explore Scientific at 1010 S....

August 27 -September 4: Burning Man!

After thoughtful consideration, we have decided to pass on this event this year.  Burning Man! in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada. They have an astronomy village and this will remain on our bucket...

August 16-19: ALCON National Convention

ALCON National Convention in Casper WY. All we can say is OMG!!!! What a week and what an ECLIPSE!!! The Corona during the Total Eclipse! If you were anywhere near one of the hot spots for the ...

StarFest Canada 2017

StarFest Canada: I've been to this event maybe 5 times over the past 7-8 years. The weather was a bit unpredictable this year. We had forecasts that didn't come true and weather that was mostly cl...

Golden State Star Party 2017 - Milky Way Time-lapse

June 21-25: Golden State Star Party: in Aden CA. WOW! The best weather in the last 5 years. Not hardly a cloud in the sky for 5 nights. Amazingly dark and transparent. Here's a quick time-lapse ta...

Explore Scientific Days 2017 - Yerkes Observatory

Yerkes Observatory - Explore Scientific Demo Days: We had some crappy weather the first couple of days - a cloudy and rainy Friday, a nice sunny Saturday but a cloudy Saturday night. Sunday was ni...

Explore Scientific Days 2017 - Yerkes Observatory - Waterproof Eyepieces come in handy!

While doing our Demo Days over Memorial Day weekend, we had our share of wet weather. It's a good thing we had Explore Sceintific eyepieces in hand.