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Actually, my story is remarkably similar to IceMan! My first scope was a 40mm refractor on a table top mount. It wasn't good enough to see much but a few years later I got a Tasco 60mm for Christmas, also not good enough to see much. I would have been about 10 at the time (1968) and probably got more interested with the Moon landings. I was interested in all the "flybys" but didn't really come back to the hobby until about 3 years ago when I bought a couple of astronomy magazines and realised the telescopes were not as expensive as I had thought. I remember drooling over a 102mm Tasco with all the gizmos in the catalogue but the price was "astronomical", many hundreds of dollars as I recall (I still wish I had the old catalogue).
I have had my 8" now for almost 2 years.
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