Eric wrote in message news:Je9jd.60460$VA5.32093@clgrps13...
Jon Isaacs wrote:
I wonder how many of you who post and lurk here started with a 60mm refractor
or something similar? I would like to see a show of hands, lurkers can Email
me privately...

Tasco 6TE. 50mm f/12 refractor on the infamous alt-az table-top mount. I
still have the telescope. Looked at comet West (or was it Khoutek) when
I was about 6. Saturn, Jupiter (the GRS was actually RED), the moon. You
know what slowed me down ? School. I didn't buy another telescope for 20
years.

Eric.

That's my first "real" scope a Tasco 50mm 66te if I recall rightly,
from about 1968. Still have it and piggybacked it atop my C8 for Mars
in 2003, and using a UO Ortho instead of those poor eyepieces that
came with it. Result: Polar cap, central dark mass and lighter areas.
Had Mars been better situated for my lattitude I bet I could have seen
even a bit more.