"or a low speed shutter option so they could photograph the stars"
Plus a telescope, a tripod and the motorized mount to get a decent image - and assembling everything in place? A remote control to be used with large gloves to avoid vibrations? How to focus?
Plus probably the difficulties to use it with the Sun in the sky and the need to avoid much of its light and heat reaching the telescope.
Which kind of science a maybe 5" telescope could have made?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
