Telescopes are so cool...

I broke down and bought an Orion Apex 102mm Maksutov-Cassegrain style telescope. I have always wanted a telescope, and started shopping the internet recently. My dad had a 4.25" diameter reflector telescope that was old - since he was a kid - and it needed its mirror re-silvered. Needless to say, I just got mine in the mail today. Talk about cool! I broke it out, put it on my tripod, walked outside, and saw JUPITER! Right out of the box! Not only that, I managed to be able to see, with the higher power eyepiece, to see Jupiter's moons - Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Calisto! Not in any particular or spectacular detail, but you could see them! I'm planning on adding digital photographic capabilities, as well as equatorial tracking... hehe, hehe...