Hello everyone!

So as I've been told since I have received my telescope (back in March 09) that I'll have the new telescope curse, so the weather won't be all that great for a week or two.. I was excited about the new telescope and how much I'll get outside with it and attempt to locate planets besides the moon. Well, I didn't think the curse was going to last THAT LONG. It's mid-june, and the weather honestly sucks. Every day, it is either cloudy, around 60 degrees, rainy, or thunder..lightning... and basically and honestly there are no good days to star gaze. And when it happens to be nice outside and warm, it is cloudy, very cloudy. Hence, there were no new pictures or updates.

Even my parents agree, that since ever I got the telescope the weather has been real bad, and that we should return the telescope so we get nice weather again! No worries..that was a joke, I'm not returning it but as you can see, at least I am not the only one who thinks and noticed the change in weather since ever I got the telescope. So you can definitely say that this "new telescope curse" is lasting just wayyyyy longer than expected! It is supposed to rain for the next week and half, is it ever gonna be nice out? I got out with my telescope about 2 weeks ago, just by luck because the weather was nice, but the moon wasn't out, and the planets were few degrees above horizon and all the trees and houses and light pollution was in my way! So I ended up looking at random stars (aka dots in my AstroMaster 130EQ) without finding anything. And when I was bringing the telescope back into my house, I noticed Jupiter (I had to go around my house to bring the telescope back inside), but it was already apart so I wasn't gonna put that thing back together. Poor Jupiter was blocked by trees, houses, etc from where I was.

So as of right now, my lovely AstroMaster 130EQ-MD is a nice decoration in my room

-EvaCZE