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I'm a 70 yr old retired telescope newbie although I've been interested in astronomy for many years. Recently my interest has been revived by viewing the ISS and searching for Iridium flares and my very observant family thought a telescope would be appropriate. So for my birthday I received a SkyWatcher Star Discovery 127/1500 Maksutov - hey it brought tears to my eyes when I opened the box!
Where I live there are trees everywhere so there are limited viewing windows but the scope is quite portable and easy to assemble, plus it's easy to use. So far I've been limited to observing the moon and some of Orion but I love the scope and look forward to a trip somewhere to get better viewing. The first Moon session also had my wife hooked and just as she lifted her head from the eyepiece we both saw a quite bright Iridium flare near the bottom left of the Moon disc - yay!!
Last edited by Macrob; 06-03-2017 at 01:01 PM.
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