re: buy a microscope or a telescope?

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About all you'd be able to see with a $100 telescope is the moon.

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This, with mine I can see Jupiter's Galilean moons, the separation between saturn and it's rings, titan, and the red strips on jupiter if I get it focused just right on a good night. That's about it. and the occasional comet.

To be able to see that it's gonna cost ya around 600. I'm sure you can see a lot more with a cheaper microscope. Not to mention you can look at stuff during the day and it doesn't take you 20 minutes to setup.

I did see Saturn pass behind the moon once though, must admit that was bad arse.