Started with a 60mm Refractor?

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...
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I've already mentioned it in the other thread, but let me add one little
tidbit. If you haven't had the chance to testdrive a 60mm Tasco scope
from *really* dark skies, you are missing some interesting things.

Last time I took it to Antiparos, which has average 6.0 skies, it really
surprized me. The Andromeda galaxy showed its main dark lane and the
Pleiades, showed hints of nebulosity around Merope. And no, it wasn't my
imagination.

Having a really good finder aligned with it, showed many M objects that
otherwise would be impossible to find, with its crappy stopped down
finder. With a couple of decent EP's and a good finder, one can have
lots of fun under dark skies.

jon isaacs
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