Originally Posted by Mr. Charlie

Say you wanna look at the Andromeda galaxy, even under the darkest skies it's a faint object and tricky to locate. Ordinarily you'd locate the constellation Pegasus, look to it's upper left-most star, then go 3 constellation stars to the right, then go up around 2 degrees, then look slightly to the right, and the Andromeda galaxy will be in that area of the sky. Finding it with a powerful telescope is even more difficult because it focuses on a tiny area of the sky and so every movement is exagerated.

With a computerised system, you simply type in the number for the Andromeda galaxy on the key pad, and press Go To, and a few seconds later it's there in your eyepiece.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.