Watched my buddy set up his first real telescope last fall, trying to capture the Orion Nebula. After hours in the cold, he just got this tiny, faint smudge of light. He said staring at that little blur, knowing how far away it was, made the whole idea of finding anyone else feel silly. Like, why are we yelling into a void that big and that quiet? He sold the gear a month later and got really into satellite tracking instead.