We recommend a Kson f/5 Refractor (400mm x 80mm) Package. May we suggest saving just a little more, and making it a present for next year, and buy some nice binoculars and the backyard astronomers guide this year? Other than that, try the used market perhaps, but we just can’t recommend new scopes at that price point. The Kson version is longer than most (f/6.25), allowing easy focusing and slightly better views through the eyepiece. The 4″ Kson Dobsonian Deep Sky Telescope is surprisingly good with the added advantage of even allowing you to observe some great nebula’s and features. You’ll have a great time!Ĭan you give some ideas for various budgets? Invest in a decent eyepiece such as a Baader Mk IV Zoom (or there are some cheaper options, check our eyepiece blog), a headlamp, a decent book, and get the right scope for you. You don’t need half the accessories you think you do.
It’s a hardcover book of hundreds of pages illustrated properly by experts with no nonsense in it that always works.īuying fluff when they should be buying stuff. The only one we currently recommend is the backyard astronomers guide. Buy a proper book along with your telescope. It’s a bit like buying a car, and a complete complete toolbox and expecting to be able to service your car without any mechanical training.
LOOKING FOR A GOOD TELESCOPE HOW TO
A keen individual with some cash might buy all this gear in a moment of passion, but then won’t buy a $60 book that explains how to use all the gear he bought correctly. Enough said.īuying ‘stuff’ when they should be buying training, or at least instructions and knowledge. A yoke telescope sits on a ‘yoke’, we don’t sell them with good reason. All of this could have been averted by talking to a retailer who cares enough about you and the hobby to give you some honest advice.īuying a department store ‘Yoke’ telescope. Do you know how to adjust the scopes weight so that they track smoothly and evenly? You get the idea. Do you have that information? The scope needs to have slow motion controls installed to track the stars. Do you know how to do that? Then you need to adjust the EQ mount to the latitude. Do you? You would need to align the finder with the main scope. To use an EQ type mount, you need to know where the southern celestial pole is. Well, at least he can watch the stars with it, right? Wrong. Moving that telescope up to watch a bird in a tree would be a complete nightmare. You can’t move that left and right, up and down. This type of telescope is meant to be used to watch stars – not landscapes. They often feature a mount that is completely unsuitable and that can’t be used with a lot of knowledge. Products are built to the lowest price point possible. Department stores are interesting in selling, not Astronomy. A capable Astronomy specialist will be able to ask you discerning questions that will be able to make the best decision you can with what you have.īuying a department store ‘EQ’ telescope. What are the biggest mistakes people make when buying a telescope?
LOOKING FOR A GOOD TELESCOPE PORTABLE
Fits together in seconds, portable and not complicated. The Kson Light Tracker is an amazing mount. Choose a correct mount, which, 90% of the time when your new is a ‘AZ’ (up down, left right) type.An 80mm to 100mm achromat is a good size, inexpensive and is flexible, you can look at all sorts of things with it (including nebula’s and asterisms), not just the moon and a planet or two. The larger the aperture (opening at the front!) the more light it allows in, which means the objects you look at will be brighter, and the telescope will allow you to get closer to what you want, while not being too dim to see. A refractor is a telescope design where you look through the bottom of it (rather than the side). What telescope should I buy if I am a beginner? What is the best telescope for a beginner?Īs a general guide, we recommend the following. Vixen Style Adaptors, Dovetails, Clamps.Vixen Style Adaptors, Dovetails, Clamps Vixen Style Adaptors.Lubrication (Lithium, Clay and PTPE) Premium grease for mounts, bearings, bushings.Filter Wheels & Eyepiece Revolvers (Turrets).Hitec Astro 2 and 4 channel dew controllers, Dew Heaters Dew Control Accessories to control dew.
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