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Went to Fry's and picked up a Celestron cardboard telescope (don't use it in the shower) for $37.00 +tax = $39.xx or so. Got out before the clouds moved in tonight and got a view of the Jovian system with all 4 Galilean satellites in view. Pretty nice optics and su-PERB motion on its chipboard base. Extremely stable compared to longer cheapass scopes.
Nice view of the moon, too--saw the central peak of either Alphonsus or that other crater next to it.
Looking forward to seeing the Pleiades and the Orion nebula, along with some neighboring galaxies.
Nice view of the moon, too--saw the central peak of either Alphonsus or that other crater next to it.
Looking forward to seeing the Pleiades and the Orion nebula, along with some neighboring galaxies.
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Note: that's a drawing I made of what I saw...even though I could see Jupiter's disk (not his dick, his disk)--there was a lot of squinting involved. But I was pleased to note that Stellarium, the freeware planetarium software, showed the Jovian moons just like this on November 11.
Since it's a cheap telescope intended for 10-year-olds, I'd have to make a camera mount out of epoxy and stuff...but it would be possible, with some effort. Not really worth the effort, though. I'd wait 'till I could afford something expensive. But then I'd want to drive it out to West Texas to get the total dark sky...getting complicated...
P.S. Howdy, Fara!
P.S. Howdy, Fara!
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