Galileo discovered the four major moons of Jupiter (forever after called the Galilean satellites in his honor); he was the first to see the phases of Venus and the rings of Saturn; he saw nebulae and clusters through a telescope for the first time. In fact, a careful checking of his observations indicates that he even observed, and recorded, the position of Neptune almost 200 years before anyone realized it was a planet. He did all this with a 1” aperture telescope.

Charles Messier, who found the hundred deep-sky objects in the catalog that bears his name, started out with a 7” reflector with metal mirrors so poor that, according to one account, it was not much better than a modern 3” telescope. His later instruments were, in fact, 3” refractors.

The point is this: there are no bad telescopes. No matter how inexpensive or unimpressive your instrument is, it is almost certainly better than what Galileo had to work with. It should be treated well. Don't belittle it; don't apologize for it; don't think it doesn't deserve a decent amount of care.