Been reading David Levy's piece about what he calls alloute telescopes.because he's originally from Montreal .for some reason he names them after the French song alloute. He's a comet hunter and now seems to live in or near phoenix,Arizona. These telescopes are little under powered things.I struck a cord as I have a collection of small monoculars plus a 25mm astronomical refractor. He describes how handy these tiny scopes are as he views the star achanar from a cruise ship going through the Panama canal. Indeed what good is a big telescope if you can't travel with it?he reckons achanar skirts just over the horizon from phoenix. That stars pretty far south and I think I've seen it from Acapulco but no further north.of course it's prominent south of the equator.