Issue 630: Curing Charity Redux + Chalk Up Another Space Summer

How’s one of my favorite telescopes of all time, Charity Hope Valentine, my ETX125 PE Maksutov Cassegrain, doing? Muchachos, the reason you haven’t heard much about her in long while is because the answer to that has been, “Not good, not good at all .” For all practical purposes my long-time companion was dead . I’d tried to take good care of her…but… Charity, you see, is no spring chicken; she is…