Mars

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Ed - how did you end up with a better telescope than the school's?

It had a bigger objective lens and had more attachments. The whole thing came in a huge wooden case that my parents found at some store in Anchorage, Alaska. It had been specially ordered and the customer never picked it up, so the store dumped it cheaply rather than ship it back to the warehouse somewhere down on the other side of Canada.

That's actually a neat story. And for some reason I felt like there was an unusual circumstance around it, other than "we just bought it."