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Students and Staff from St. Charles Community College are enjoying a star party.

Here are links to sites with information about amateur telescopes. Don't buy a telescope without looking through as many as you can. Public Star Parties are held in most communities in the US and Canada, so don't be shy! None of these links go to a vendor.

http://www.skyandtelescope.com/equipment/basics/3303926.html

http://www.floridastars.org/telescop.html

http://www.astroleague.org/al/astrnote/astnot19.html

Here are the optical tubes for three major types of amateur telescopes.

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