I have recently joing SJAA and borrowed a scope a 6" scope a few weeks ago
and I find the program extremely valuable. It's allowed me to jump in and
enjoy Astronomy before investing into it.
Based on my own experience I would suggest that a basic sky atlas/maps be
included with every scope. I just ordered one for myself from Amazon but it
would have been great to have some thing cheap to work with, may be even the
Free Mag 7 Charts, before I figured what the best charts/atlas are for
myself.
Secondly, and I am not certain I am right about this, I think you should put
up some text on actually maintaining an handling the telescope. I am of
course assuming it is extremely fragile and treating it as such. I have
created a temporary cover that I am storing the tube in. It would be great
to have some direction there, and if needed a cover for the scope.
Last suggestion I have is that if this is intended for the beginners, I
think people who are not beginners are probably the best to suggest which
scope to start with. I picked mine almost completely based on suggestion
from other SJAA members.
It is a great program!! On to Houge Park today.
-Digvijay
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