The Moon provides a fantastic example of the microcosmic within the macrocosmic and the germ theory of the universe. Even with the naked eye one can see a large object become insignificant. It is quite the mundane marvel to witness the Moon, a massive body floating in our sky, as so insignificant a creature that most people hardly acknowledge its presence even in a cloudless sky.
The telescope, you see, is just a microscope in reverse. Nothing of this universe is small or large. They are both.
