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Follow my three simple rules or Laws of Telescopics - to banish disappointing fuzzy, blurry eyepiece views with your astronomy telescope.

With apologies to Isaac Asimov and I, Robot's three Laws of Robotics - this video is about my personal three rules or laws, not of Robotics, but Telescopics. I, Robert's Three Laws of telescopics to avoid fuzzy, blurry eyepiece views with your telescope!

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00:00 Tiny planet man's ladder
01:07 Fuzzy, blurry eyepiece views
03:39 The "Energy Blob" planet
04:06 Let's talk about "nothing"
06:54 The First Law
07:30 In praise of mirrors
09:22 Schlieren imaging the mirror
10:19 Out of the frying pan...
12:24 "Smoking" mirror!
14:45 My First Law stated
16:05 The Second Law
25:39 My Second Law stated
26:34 The Third Law
27:10 My guides
27:49 My first telescopes
31:11 My Third Law stated
33:40 Data sources
36:19 Thinking caps on...
36:55 Videos of seeing episodes
38:48 Adding to your observing log
39:13 A star test
40:15 Our lovely sponsor, Brilliant
41.33 Our special offer
41:50 Thanks for watching

Followed by end credits.

Special thanks to Damian Peach for allowing us to use his library of videos showing various seeing conditions. Web: http://www.damianpeach.com/

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