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I love Turn Left at Orion for one main reason, it gives you REAL examples of how things will look in your eyepiece.
So many of the books and magazines I have seen and own have these beautiful hubble like pictures. Beautiful to see but what I see in my 80 mm refractor and my 203 mm reflector doesn't look anything like that.
As I help friends get engaged in astronomy I loan them my 10X50 binoculars or a 76 mm reflector and Turn Left at Orion. They also have ratings for the targets as to whether it is good for binoculars, a small telescope or a large telescope, again setting the right expectations.
I should point out that I am in the North so I can't say how much of TLAO applies in the South but its real value, to me, is in setting the proper expectation of what the new astronomer will see.
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