Late winter astronomy

Well it’s starting to get to that time of the year when the seasons will soon be changing again in 4-6 weeks winter into spring . I completely and totally am ready for Spring this year. I am contact with others in the astronomy group here in North Adams and we are diligently planning for the next clear night as soon as it may happen. I am in the market for a new telescope that will compliment my telescope I already have. I currently have an 6”SCT called the Celestron 6SE. Its like a telephoto lens for astronomy I can see stuff really close up as well as smaller brighter deep-sky objects like Messier Objects, double stars, planetary nebula, brighter galaxies, and tight nebulas with a filter I am told as well as the planets, the moon which a 6” SCT is prefect for. I am, planning on getting a 90mm f5.5 telescopes that is an Achromat refractor which acts like a wide field lens on a camera . I will be able to see huge wide field nebula, massive open star clusters, some tighter star clusters as well. I can see huge bright objects in the night skies at 3-5 degrees TFOV . I feel these 2 telescopes complement each other very well . I wanna see the huge vistas and grand large objects in the night skies of spring and summer with the 90mm scope and the Messier objects with the 6SE SCT . I can tell this is gonna be a grand year for astronomy. I have plans to start to do public out reach soon and maybe do some semiformal public sessions in accessible places around town in North Adams.

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