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Wouldn’t it be great if you could sit down and look through a large telescope? The Hobby-Eberle telescope at the McDonald Observatory at Mt. Fowlkes, Texas built in 1997 on a Comsat/MERO mount would fit the bill.
But, don’t think you cannot see great stuff or get good views of galaxies or even asteroids with a [...]

Five hundred years ago, the number of stars visible to you without a telescope would have been about 2500 at any one time. So until optics were invented, the number of stars known were just the brightest ones.
With the invention of the first telescope the number of stars increased to approximately 30120. But, even [...]