A person's first telescope can tilt one's eyes to the sky in a somewhat permanent fashion, if anecdotal evidence has any standing. Over the years many other amateur astronomers have said their interest in the sky can be traced back to receiving their first telescope over the holidays. While it is true that many have become "hooked" for life by viewing the wonders of the sky through their first telescope, it is also true that many others have had their initial enthusiasm for astronomy severely dampened by their first telescope.
While camping, for instance, an Omega Nexstar telescope can enhance the viewing experience completely. It enables you to see:
hundreds of craters on the Moon
Saturn’s rings (and perhaps a couple of its moons)
Jupiter’s main cloud belts and its four big moons
Mars as a tiny reddish disk (when it's near Earth)
Venus going through phases (as the Moon does)
sunspots (using a safe solar filter)
colorful double and triple stars
many variable stars
the Orion and Lagoon nebulae and the Andromeda Galaxy
dozens of other galaxies, nebulae, and star clusters.
Remember to get a good star atlas (and a planisphere perhaps), or an app like Star Chart to help you find galaxies etc, a red-light torch and learn a few constellations. Have a bit of practice finding objects with the telescope before you go or else you will be fiddling about for hours at the campsite, not be able to find anything and the experience might put you off the whole business forever ! Happy camping !
