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Singapura:
That was one of the first things I built myself. I was 13 and a member of the local Geek club (we called it "young researchers") I found this book in the library, saved all my money for a year and built the parts. It wasn't very good but it did the trick. I'd love to have one again but here in Singapore you rarely see more then one or two very bright stars.

ErikRuud:
MustardTent,  I am out in St. Charles. Try these links if you haven't already.

http://astronomer.proboards23.com/index.cgi

http://www.nsaclub.org/

http://www.geocities.com/harperastronomyclub/hcastroclub_henizeschedule.htm

MustardTent:
Very cool.  Are you involved in any of those?  I'm located in Carol Stream, pretty close to St. Charles.

ErikRuud:
Not exactly.  I am on the The Chicago Astronomer fairly often.  I was just at the "Northwest Suburban Astronomers" astronomy day at Harper College last weekend. 

During the summer American Science and Surplus has astronomy nights.  I haven's seen this year's schedule yet.  Last year I went to one of the ones at the Geneva store and it was pretty cool.

I don't have a very good scope. It's a decent 70x800 Bushnell refractor.  It's best feature is that it was free.  It's really good for the moon and I can see things like Jupiter and 4 of it's moons.  I was also able to see comet P17-Holmes with it last fall.

jasonbar:
Just found this thread while searching for my old scope thread to add a new post to that old thread.

Question: where to get a scope?

Answer: make one!   ;D

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=73343

Thanks,
-Jason

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