Before you purchase that expensive telescope, PLEASE read this important and interesting thread from StarGazers Lounge, please click on the link: What Can I Expect to See...? **
**Since the above article was written, and during the most recent years and months, many Amateur Astronomers have enthusiastically embraced "backyard" Electronically Assisted Astronomy (EAA).
Beware Consumer (Caveat Emptor): BEFORE YOU ARE LURED INTO INVESTING MANY HUNDREDS AND EVEN THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS IN FANCY AND EXPENSIVE: TRIPODS, EQUATORIAL MOUNTS, and/or ASTRO-CAMERAS and accessories, PLEASE CONSIDER THIS VERY IMPORTANT FACT OF THIS HOBBY.
NATURE and only NATURE is THE determinant factor of whether there will be Clear Skies at a given location at a given night and for how long.
And you will find very few of them convenient to you, each year.
July 27,2014
December 31, 2016 - updated.
October 4, 2022 - updated
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