Frak (!) this is a depressing memory. I remember pretty much 50 years ago, as a teenager, my first real scope was the Royal-LN4T 4" Newt from Astro-Optical in Bourke St mall. I could see swaths of Milky Way from my backyard in Mount Waverley, and make out the Ring Nebula in Lyra low in the Northern horizon, and impossible concept now...
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