The telescope cost sixty pounds from someone clearing out a garage…

The telescope cost sixty pounds from someone clearing out a garage and it is, by every account I have read, not very good.

It is also the reason I know anything. A better one would have sat in a cupboard because I would have been precious about it. The whole value of a cheap instrument is that you take it outside on a marginal night and do not mind if it is a waste of time.

Half of learning anything is owning a version of the equipment you are willing to be careless with.