Originally posted by Jon in SC Leo
I see you are in CN, if you were closer to SC I would be hitting you up for a visit to your observatory to see what you are doing. I did visit a really good observatory operated by the Charlotte NC Astronomy club and loved what I saw. It was really cool to get the opportunity to look through the telescopes and actually see the rings of Saturn and to see a nebula. It's one thing to see them on TV or on line and another to actually see them in a telescope!
It would be a long ride to visit a small Observatory.
At 6 * 7 feet it will fit my 8 inch scope, one visitor, myself, not much else.
I would be delighted to show you some objects through a telescope, but I rarely, "look through" my telescopes except at public outreach events. Once you have taken astrophotos you can't go back. The following Lagoon Nebula (taken with a K110D) looks faint and gray when I use an eyepiece. I'm spoiled!