[chadcmulligan]

I spent a few hundred on a 6" telescope, and as others have said, you can't see much. I know a couple of others who have laid down thousands and been rewarded with blurry pictures of jupiter and saturn after a lot of work.

I sold my telescope and bought a microscope - now that was fun. You can see everything just like you see pictures of, worlds within a drop of water. Because microscopy is limited by how much you can see due to light wavelengths. Spending a few hundred gives you the best of anything in the world, if you wanted to go nuts, a thousand will give you something that will be as good as anything else around.

[Benlights]

That's such a great idea! Do you have any suggestions on what microscope to get?

[chadcmulligan]

I bought a celestron labs one, it was on sale at a place that was closing down, so no real planning in it. Its great. There's a guy called the microbe hunter that has a youtube channel and goes into all the things to look for on buying a microscope - https://www.youtube.com/c/MicrobehunterMicroscopy/featured

[Benlights]

Thanks!