# A serious question for Sam Stone on Factual Errors **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 11, 2021, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-serious-question-for-sam-stone-on-factual-errors/955881 "2021-12-11T12:32:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 989
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2023, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-serious-question-for-sam-stone-on-factual-errors/955881/989 "2023-09-18T01:06:07Z")
Someone was asking (it may have been in a post that was subsequently deleted) basically what **Sam** has ever posted that was any good. I hate being in the position of apparently defending a guy with such a long record of right-wing nuttery and well-documented dishonesty, but the answer is, many of his non-political posts are useful and informative. I’m not about to go on a long search, but here’s one link below. My point is obviously not to defend his political mendacity, but to defend him as an otherwise intelligent human being. Here he is giving advice on telescopes from his experience as an amateur astronomer: > [@Amateur Astronomy: Which type of telescope should I start with?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amateur-astronomy-which-type-of-telescope-should-i-start-with/964064/19): > > I’ve been an amateur astronomer for quite a while, and mostly do astrophotography from the middle of a city (A Bortle ‘White Zone’). Here are some tips/observations: From a city you can forget about all the dim objects - nebulas, most galaxies, etc. You can see Andromeda, Orion, and maybe a couple of others, but that’s about it. With astrophotography you can capture a whole lot more, but there are challenges to astrophotography from inside a light polluted area. Your primary targets… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-serious-question-for-sam-stone-on-factual-errors/955881)._