I was fascinated by the range of comments sparked by my reported sighting of Comet Garradd. "Go to" vs. "Push to." Exact coordinates. Messier-era technology. Identifying the cute little cluster of stars surrounding the comet on Friday night as the "coathanger asterism." That was a new one for me! I enjoy the diversity of interests and skill levels on this list. For any entry-level star searchers like myself, you don't have to be intimidated by the pros. My rig is all low-tech and manual. (Patrick Wiggins had to show me how to focus the eye piece tube when I first got it - he was too generous and polite to laugh at me.) So, Friday night I googled the comet and found a site with a map of the sky showing where the comet would be each night through September: http://cometchasing.skyhound.com/comets/2009_P1.pdf Then, with binoculars and my Telrad I pointed my scope in the general direction indicated, "a little bit left of Sagitta," and carefully pushed the scope up and down across that part of the sky until I spotted the comet - the faint bluish-green smudge that didn't look like anything else I was seeing. If I can do it, anyone can do it! Enjoy the stars at whatever level you are, and grow at your own pace. Then share them with someone even less well-informed and bask in their praise as they declare you to be a genius! What a great hobby! Do you think if I showed the comet to my neighbor he might get the idea all on his own to install a kill switch on his decorative driveway lamp? It's worth a try.