Turnin' nerd...

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Can you just look across town without the picture being upside down? Serious question. A telescope is one of those things I'd get if I had more money/time than I needed.

No. Mine is an astronomical scope, designed for such where achieving "right-side-up" views are discouraged as that only introduces cost and reduces image quality when viewing the night sky. Binoculars and Terrestrial spotting scopes provide "erect images." For the record, "I had no damned idea of this either until I experinced and went an researched it." Good question.

EDIT: I did not give a good or correct answer, let me edit. Mine produces a "Mirror image" which is right-side up but inverse view where as "other" telescope designs provide the completely inverted view asked about. Example, I look at the Peak from afar, it is correct but inverse from the human eye. Hope this makes sense.