I got my first telescope just after Halley's comet. There seemed to be many stores selling telescopes and I realised I want to look at the night sky.
I bought a Pentax 70mm refractor for $600! I then got really hooked when I first saw Omega Centauri.
Globular clusters are my favourite objects. Just amazing that stars appear so dense in clusters and yet are really light years apart.
I mainly look at the moon, globulars, Orion nebula, Saturn and Jupiter. The easy stuff for visual.
Interesting thread n posts.
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