My First Telescope: The Bushnell Voyager 100x4.5 "Bong Scope"
Time to tell you of the story of my first telescope. I was never super into visual astronomy as a kid. Dunno why. Maybe it was a combination of suburban light pollution, poor vision which often went uncorrected, and a really disappointing experience with a lunar eclipse in first or second grade (they show the eclipsed moon as being so red on tv! I was expecting a colorful show! My second total eclipse, the January 2019 one, was a lot more fun since I knew what to expect). I appreciated the Moon in the sky, and I could identify one (1) constellation, or rather, an asterism within it: Orion's Belt (for some reason not his body, though).