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>My regular old binocs are better than the naked eye, and fun, at times.>
>I have a simple one bought years ago on sale at $149 that is much better that what Galileo had in his time. I can see the rings of Saturn, the phases of Venus and 4 moons of Jupiter.
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>Now if I could get dark skies around here it would be nice!
We have the same problem here in Cochabamba, too. Lights, and the city smog, towards the south from my house. That means that I can never see the Magellanic Clouds from home :-(
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
