@tom30519
Hm, it seems I cannot read tea leaves or divine signs; better stick to NASA mysteries

Any technical details about your apparatus you are willing to disclose? I've done some work in the past on an equatorial mount, just a fun project of mine, but stopped short of actually fitting it with a telescope.

Urged to make something earlier, I ended up watching Comet Neowise with a pair of cheap binoculars and had, well, some results 🥴 (light polluted sky):