Today’s telescopes are absolutely awesome!
For those who live in or can get to skies dark enough for star-gazing, the new scopes will align themselves, and steer themselves to observable objects of interest. In some systems, even the International Space Station.
Couple that with advances in camera and computer technology, and the sky doesn’t have to be the limit for anyone!
His dream was to get a Mead.
After his death, I had a neighbor with a Mead, and he also had an electronic clock/GPS that was an absolute marvel.
Even with the skyglow of Vegas, I was able to see ALL the rings of Saturn in awesome detail! And we were “downtown!”