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  1. Hello everyone, First of all, and maybe the most important part moving forward for me personally is the community knowing and understanding that I am a visually impaired dad, who is here in hopes of being able to help my young 9 year old daughter and her love for astronomy. She has always leaned toward the night sky, asking questions, always reading about Saturn and it’s rings, black holes, Jupiter, etc. It intrigues her to no end — I want to embrace this, I want to nourish her curiosity. But being visually impaired, I find it extremely hard for us to navigate the night sky, with her being 9 and not understanding how to work the equipment (she got a cheap telescope for Christmas from her Uncle). That leads me to my next question. I want to get her some sort of telescope that is digitized. Through screen readers, apps and other visual impairment aides I am able to navigate the web, view forums like these, and communicate with everyone. My questions is, would a telescope like the Celestron NexStar 127SLT, Celestron Astro Fi, or something similar tot hose with digital alignment that works from a phone / tablet etc, be an OK for her to start out on? I struggle really hard to help her find the moon, planets etc, and the idea of being able to do that part by a digital means would be insanely awesome for us. The other part of that is, since I am visually impaired, I have to be very buddget aware. I simply can’t afford a $1500+ telescope for her right now. I do want her to be able to view other things other than the moon and read one answer that said the 127SLT couldnt’ perform well enough out of the box to view Saturn, etc. That it would need the upgraded lens kits, which I haven’t looked at yet. Anyway, if anyone has any advice, or any helpful links, thoughts, or ideas moving forward I would greatly appreciate it. I’m a passionate father, just trying to help his daughter with something she enjoys. Thanks!
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