VISUAL OBSERVING VS SPACE TELESCOPES & PROBES

Images online, whether from the space based or large ground based telescopes are incredible. However there are things to consider about these images, compared to when viewing them through a telescope:

Space/Ground/Probe images are taken with billion-pound equipment, they're at the cutting edge of tech, and have the ability to do days long exposures, they are then edited and have gathered light our eyes can't see (infrared and x-ray). These instruments are more sensitive to light than our eyes and some have been taken outside of Earth's atmosphere.

Viewing objects through a telescope is an incredible and mind blowing experience. It's the most natural, raw way you will see the planets, the moon, stars and anything else that resides amongst our cosmos. These sights are truly inspiring and we never know how it will affect people emotionally, some people cry, some people jump up and down and others have a smile from ear to ear.  

Please bare in mind, although you will not see images quite like the space images, what you do see through the telescope will leave you astonished and forever remembering when you first saw it with your own two eyes.