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The Good: Seeing Jupiter occult Beta Scorpio in May 1971. Both components were covered by Jupiter about 10-15 minutes apart and each component showed a surprising series of fading and re-brightening when being occulted. Each occultation took some time for the star to finally disappear. (From memory about 20-30 seconds). This was viewed through an 8 inch reflector.
The Bad: My first telescope at 10 was a 30x30 hand-held instrument that only lasted about 6 months before falling apart, then I was back to nothing again. People who laugh or groan about their first 60mm scope don't know how lucky they were. That was my third scope!
The Ugly: Giving a work college advice on selecting a telescope. Then when following up, found that he only used the new scope of his veranda of his hillside home and quote: "You'd be surprised what you can see though people's bedroom windows". I never asked again.
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