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I got this telescope last October and have never used it because that's what happens here in the winter. It's like being on a different planet where everything is dark, frozen and covered with salt residue...and the skies are cloudy all day...for like 18 months.

 It's a tiny 80 mm (3 1/8") apochromatic refractor. I've never used a telescope like this before. It has a really wide field of view and great image quality. There's no motors, no electronics; just light, glass and reefer madness - the same  shit Galileo was doing at 3 in the morning. I'm going to put a giant 2" Coke-can eyepiece on it and it'll be like looking out the window of a spaceship.



It's beautiful. I admire it more than I use it, kind of like a classic car that never gets driven...only like one-one-millionth the price and hassle. It's not even astronomy. It's just nocturnal telescope appreciation.