Choosing The Right Telescope

Written by Duane Brown


Ever since Galileo, people have been pointing telescopes torepparttar heavens and expanding their view of this world by looking outside of it into other worlds. It can be a fascinating and rewarding endevour. You can even meet some very good friends this way as there are usually local star-gazing clubs within reach of almost anywhere inrepparttar 116061 country that offer plenty of companionship when using your telescope.

But how do you choose fromrepparttar 116062 wide array of telescopes that are being sold today? Well, first of all you need to understand just a couple of basic points about telescopes. One is that magnification is not reallyrepparttar 116063 most important characteristic of a telescope. That may seem very strange, butrepparttar 116064 truth is thatrepparttar 116065 most significant capability of a telescope is it's ability to gather light. After all, what good is a large image that you can barely see?

The light gathering capability of a telescope is usually in direct relation torepparttar 116066 size of it's aperture or it's light gathering lens or mirror. Now, you are probably thinking that you just need to get a telescope withrepparttar 116067 largest aperture possible then, but that is notrepparttar 116068 case. Somewhere alongrepparttar 116069 line there will be a tradeoff betweenrepparttar 116070 size ofrepparttar 116071 aperture and portability. So if you want to transport your telescope at all, you will want to make sure that it is not too heavy and bulky to be mobile. Remember that you will also most likely have to set up and adjust your telescope inrepparttar 116072 dark if your transport it, so having one that is very large can be a daunting task when you can't see what you are doing very well.

Onrepparttar 116073 magnification factor, you can adjustrepparttar 116074 magnification of almost any telescope throughrepparttar 116075 use of different eyepieces, so that is not a really important consideration when buying.

CREATING PERSONALIZED PHOTO CALENDARS

Written by Valerie Goettsch


About Photo Calendars:

Photo Calendars are 12-month, wall-hanging calendars that you can create using your own digital photos and captions. As you customize your own photo calendar, you can startrepparttar calendar on whatever month and year you wish. Most photo calendars are printed on white heavy-weight glossy card stock that you can write on, and they are spiral-bound inrepparttar 116060 middle.

Creating Personalized Photo Calendars:

Most online digital photo printing services, such as Shutterfly (my favorite), Snapfish and Ofoto.com, offer custom photo calendars. The process of creating personalized photo calendars usually involves:

1. Picking a starting month and year for your calendar

2. Selecting a page design from a variety of templates

3. Choosing your photos from those you have uploaded torepparttar 116061 photo service's website and selecting which photo you want for a specific month

4. Writing brief photo captions to accompany each page of your photo calendar (usually optional)

5. Adding a cover photo for your personalized photo calendar

6. Placing your photo calendar order withrepparttar 116062 web site

Templates for Personalized Photo Calendars:

Most photo printing services like Shutterfly and Snapfish offer a selection of photo calendar templates to choose from. There are also several software programs that include free photo calendar templates. FotoFinish offers several photo calendar templates with its FotoFinish Suite software version, and you can download a variety of additional free photo calendar templates from its website. Adobe Photoshop Album and Jasc Paint Shop Photo Album 5 Deluxe also feature photo calendar templates.

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