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Which telescope for $3000?
Hi everybody,
I'ts not often someone gives you $3000 to buy a gift, but that's just what my son, who's now a successful stockbroker gave me. And he's expecting me to buy a telescope, because I once told him that when I was a kid that it was one of my unfulfilled dreams. So I guess he still thinks I have a yearning for it.
I didn't have the heart to tell him that my only thoughts on the subject for the past 40 years were way back in 1979 when I feared that SkyLab was going to crash right onto my house. I do gaze at the occasional full moon -- but if I buy a bick sucker like the Losmandy G-8 (which I've been looking at) what the hell am I expecting to see? And how can I get re-enthused about something I know little about -- and relate that enthusasium to my son? Like I can't just say, "Hey Russ, I saw this big bright friggin' thing in the west last night."
Cheers
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