Conclusion

Thanks for listening to me tonight. I hope you found it useful, and I hope you’ll try to find these objects yourself.

If you’re just getting started, keep in mind that “easy” is in the eye of the beholder. What’s easy for me might be very difficult indeed for a beginner. If you’re a beginner, what I describe as “bright” will probably seem impossibly dim to you the first time you find it, and what I describe as “easy” may be very hard indeed for you.

Conversely, there are people in this room who can find things with their Telrads tied behind their backs that are a real stretch for me to find at all. It’s all about experience. The more you find things, the easier it is to find other things. The other aspect of that is that once you find something, it’s easier to find it the next time. Once you’ve found it three or four times, you’ll never have a problem finding it again.

And now I’ll open it up to questions.

 

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