Today I had the exquisite pleasure to get to look through this thing:

Above is the Orion SkyQuest XT8 Classic or to us normal folk a farking huge telescope.

The thing about this big monster that can see into deep space in the right conditions, is that it will turn you into an astronomy enthusiast the moment you get a few hours with this telescope.

Below is a picture taken by the owner of the telescope (Unbelievably the picture was taken with a Samsung D900i cellphone pointing into the eye piece ) . Still beautiful!!!

Awesome!