I once borrowed a small refractor of the type which is readily found in the pages of newspapers and magazines. I'm sure you must have seen similar:
Astonishing value! Bulk purchase makes it possible to offer at this low, low price! The Solar System at your fingertips! View the planets, stars and the craters of the moon with a clarity you can only have dreamed of!
Send just nine pounds, eleven shillings and fourpence-halfpenny plus ten pounds postage and packing and this remarkable optical marvel can be yours to own and cherish. That is just as soon as we receive our next consignment from our Scientific Instruments Production Centre in Central Azerbaijan.
Andromeda Enterprises Ltd., Third Viaduct Arch from Gasworks Street, Bootle, Lancashire.
Alternatively, you can leave your payment and address with Gervais at the Gay Docker pub next door which is just opposite the public lavatories and the Salvation Army Soup Kitchen For Fallen Women.
Anyway, it had an object glass of about two and a half inches which to my great surprise and wonder was capable of revealing the rings of Saturn - if you could manage to hold the tripod steady enough.
'Find your enemy and shoot him down - everything else is unimportant.'
