I don't have a lot of patience with telecsopes. My favorites are camping out in Wyoming and seeing all those stars. Not much light pollution, a higher elevation, really great. The southern cross over the Serengetti. And, of course, two solar eclipses. (Saving up for that really long one in a couple of years.) I really like lunar eclipses, bloody moon and all that. It is awesome to watch the moon turn blood red. Oh, and whatever that comet was a few years ago that you really could see with the naked eye. I watched it while driving through either southern Indiana or Ohio. I still want to see northern lights.