Since Joe Sabin sent me a 6" mirror and Ross and I built it into a modest Newtonian Reflector telescope, I have been fooling around with the things here and there. Finally, Craigslist provided me with the opportunity to snap up a modern, computerized GoTo telescope. This is a Celestron C8 (Nexstar). The tripod is around here somewhere... It's primary mirror is 8" and it produces amazing images of the Moon, Planets, Stars, Nebula, Galaxies, Clusters, Binary Stars &c. Since I live 2 blocks from Chicago, most nights I can only see the brighter of the possible objects. But when I can get this out to a dark site, the light gathered by this instrument and conveyed to my eye will have been traveling for many millions of years. Please say that last part slowly. Traveling (at the speed of light) for Millions of Years. Millions...
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