The best place for telescope recommendations and questions is r/telescopes, because it's a community made up entirely of telescope enthusiasts you're a lot more likely to get good answers there. Specifically check out the pinned post, it's got a list of recommendations for different price points.

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Budget is a max of $300. It would be stored indoors, until being used. We plan to use it often, especially in the Spring/Summer months. We want something that takes pictures, too. Good quality pictures. Just looking for suggestions, as I know absolutely nothing about telescopes.

There isn't one. It all depends what you want to shoot. Where you live. What budget do you have. How versed you are in photography, optics, stacking programs. Are you into galaxies or nebulas? I can think of hundreds of choices and skills or lack thereof, that factor into purchasing gears.

The one that best suits your needs (what you're viewing, astrophotography or eyeball mk1), budget and restrictions (transport, storage etc).

It seriously is a question of the same caliber as "what's the best car to buy".

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Triple point

You seem too be confused as to what the UK is

Basically everyone is saying:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_point_(thermodynamics)

For water that would be 374^(o)C and 218 atm

Actually no. There just is no space for steam to form and the container is indestructable as stated. It will heat with rising pressure until it passes the critical point. Then a distinction between fluid and gas cannot be made anymore.

click the link. i'd assume if you lived in the British Isles there's a much higher chance you're more familiar with the Michael Collins who was an Irish Nationalist or the British Actor or the British Footballer

This. Although finally the water will pass the critical point, at which a distinction between fluid and gas is impossible. So you could say, halfjokingly, that there is steam and isn't.

With pressure it would form ice VII as shown in the diagram you posted, that expand less than the ice we know from everyday. The elasticity of both liquid and solid water would set pressure at a fixed volume, exactly for the same reason the pressure would increase when heating.

What does the UK have to do with anything

That’s how pressure cookers work. Increasing pressure raises the boiling point which allows liquid water to exist at temperatures higher than 212F

Superhot ice sounds pretty cool. How does water form a solid if there is no room to expand into the crystalline structure?

Oh steam would form till the pressure got too high then BAM!

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With that sort of container, water would rise in pressure at an absurd level while heating (with thermal expansion), so the question would be
"will it freeze" more than "will it boil"

It will behave the same way as water on earth, the only difference is 1bar of pressure.

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also interesting enough

you can technically line a spaceship with a field bulkhead of water, provided you use hydrodynamics to circulate the water in the bulkhead containers to avoid expansion.

i digress. bulk water like this (at a width of several cm) can halt ionizing radiation by half. you can extend this with wider bulkhead containers for the ship. this in fact helps protect space vessels from ionizing radiation from solar flares etc

yes, nasa has tested the hell out of this

Well, see, it’s like this. The water is no longer wet. It becomes what is known as dry water. Think of it as the antimatter of hydration. And thank you for your question.

Just wanted to add another real world example: the coolant system in automobiles does this all the time. That system is essentially a closed loop system. The radiator cap acts as a pressure regulator, and allows fluid to expand into the coolant tank when the pressure rises high enough. The likelihood of pressure is why there are big warnings on your radiator cap telling you to not open it when the engine is hot. If you do, the pressure drops and all that really hot water inside can suddenly decide to turn into really hot steam that will then spray out at you.

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