Abre Los Ojos

I think it all started with the adverts in the leading Astronomy magazines. In our youth many of us poured over the glossy adverts for a Meade LX200. How great would it be to visit 50,000 different celestial objects in one night?! If only we had the money required to buy one ! Then we all went to university, met women, got jobs, got married, got children and generally lived off beans on toast a dozen years..... Coming out the other side we suddenly find we have credit cards and disposable income.. and what better way to spend all that money on the machines of our dreams from the back page of a ten year old copy of Sky and Telescope?