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Originally Posted by Bassnut
awe come on, looking in an eyepeice is a completely different experience, regardless of how crappy. If I turned up just to look at a friggen screen Id walk away disappointed. Its not about what im looking at in this case, its how (for the experience Geoff is on about).
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I think you're being a tad unfair. I think you need to understand that many people new to the observatory may just as easily walk away from the eyepiece not having seen anything anyway and be equally disappointed. At least something, even if on a screen, may give them the hunger to follow up on the possibilities of observig what's out there, whereas a few blurry glows really doesn't incite much curiousity to the uninitiated.
It is always first preference to observe through the eyepiece, but so people won't be disappointed during their visit maybe Alex's set up is a viable alternative.