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- From: mcovingt@athena.cs.uga.edu (Michael A. Covington)
- Newsgroups: sci.astro
- Subject: Re: Advice needed for Purchase (Novice)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep3.234147.15427@athena.cs.uga.edu>
- Date: 3 Sep 92 23:41:47 GMT
- References: <16857E8FF.MEDELMA@cms.cc.wayne.edu>
- Organization: University of Georgia, Athens
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- In article <16857E8FF.MEDELMA@cms.cc.wayne.edu> MEDELMA@cms.cc.wayne.edu (Michael Edelman) writes:
- >My year of novice experience has taught me two things:
- >
- >1. Buy a good pair of binoculars first, and learn the sky. See what you
- >can do with these before you buy a telescope. I spend 10 times as much
- >time with my 8x56s as with my 80mm refractor. And when you do buy a telescope,
- >you'll still have plenty of uses for the binocs.
-
- Amen! I have an 8" Meade, a 5" Celestron, and 8x40 binoculars.
- Guess which I use the most?
-
- In fact I enjoy picking out "telescopic" objects (such as M27) in
- the binoculars.
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- + Michael Covington - Artificial Intelligence Programs - U of Georgia - USA
- + Unless otherwise noted, these are private opinions, not official statements.
- + VOTE NO GEORGIA LOTTERY - we need not imitate mistakes of other states.
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