I knew it was cold as I pedaled to work the other morning in the early morning darkness, but I didn't mind. The sky was clear and I could see Arcturus directly ahead, so, naturally, my thoughts turned to astronomy. I couldn't help but wonder how much better todays
beginner telescopes were than when I started so many, many years, ago. I remember of dreaming of the day when I could upgrade from my cheap 60mm refractor telescope to a larger reflector telescope. Of course, the
Celestron Astromaster 130 EQ telescope was not available, back then. Nor was any Dobsonian, such as the
8" Meade Lightbridge. Heck, John Dobson hadn't even invented that design, yet. And computers? Ha! There was no such thing as a personal computer when I started in astronomy, let alone a computer on a
telescope. If a person could transport a celestron 5Se back in time, some forty years, what a commotion that would cause!
