The Moon is by far the most dramatic target for any new telescope. An alien landscape fills your eyepiece field with the same stark craters and mountains the Apollo astronauts skimmed over 25 years ago. Even a small telescope working at 100 power can show you the Moon as it would appear from a spaceship orbiting a few thousand miles above the lunar surface. Each night the view changes as sunlight creeps across the Moon to reveal new moonscapes emerging from the deep lunar shadows.
The planets, being much farther away, reveal their features only under careful examination. At 100 to 150 power Jupiter shows itself as a flattened globe crossed by several dark cloud bands. With a trained eye, y
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