My New Year's resolution is to control my telescope apetite and stay with something small and portable, even if it means sacrificing a little performance. Basically I am tired of making an expedition out of observing, with two or three trips needed just to get my telescope out on the patio or stowed away safely in the back seat of my car. With my schedule, I just don't have time to deal with lengthy set-up and tear-down time and even less time to wait while a big scope cools down to air temperature in the winter.

Then, too, there is something refreshing about going back to the small stuff on a simple mount. Kind of like where I began all those years ago, only this time I will replace the old Jason refractor with something a whole lot better ... say a Telvue?