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At least you didn’t indicate whose telescope I was using, or for what; and for that, I am grateful!

Star-gazing, no doubt -- what else would one use a telescope for?

To tell the truth, there are precious few stars I'd recognize anyway. It's not like any of them, other than Charleton Heston, even rate among the list of "people I'd like to know."

Most of the actors & actresses in movies today... I couldn't name them if befronted by them, even if I saw their movie.

If this means I lose out on some contest... I'm not even entering. Most (not all!) of these folks are so brainless I wouldn't have anything to do with them anyways. And as regards the "entertainment" they deliver -- "Good Lord, Deliver Us!"

I was talking of STARZ in the HEAVENZ! Where we currently reside!

As for the Hollywierd Starz, well, I don’t keep track. The ACTORS are mostly dead and buried. The WHINERS are in the forefront, modeling their skinny ugly bodies and trying to tell the World who their latest Squeeze is. Like we care...

"Star-gazing, no doubt -- what else would one use a telescope for? To tell the truth, there are precious few stars I'd recognize anyway."

One could use a telescope for observing nature.

As for star-gazing, there are still areas where amateur or semi-professional astronomers can make contributions. You could still discover another planet!

Here's how: I was Googling "Trojan planets" for um, technical reasons, when I came across an interesting article from a small college group.

They had reasoned that some few "eclipsing binaries" -- those are stars that orbit each other, and do so such that they pass in front of each other as we observe them, (one eclipses the other) -- could possibly have an invisible companion planet that orbited at the same distance in a rotating equilateral triangle.

Logic said that such a planet would also tend to eclipse (slightly) its companion stars. By observing for a very slight diminution of light from the star being eclipsed, (or transited), at exactly the right time in the grand rotation, one could deduce the presence of a Trojan Planet hundreds of light years away!

Keep in mind that timing of observations and accuracy of light intensity measurements are at least as important as the quality of your scope, but you too could be a Lowell or Tombaugh!