The market is awash with beginner telescopes, and it’s fair to say that some are better than others. At the good end of the...
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The CDK12.5, or Corrected Dall-Kirkham, is the smallest telescope of the line-up offered by Planewave Instruments currently priced at $10,000. It comes with plenty...
A great place for starting with your first telescope is a small refractor. While children of the 1970s like me remember flimsy toys with...
Sky-Watcher’s Heritage 150p is a collapsible 6” f/5 truss Dobsonian reflector telescope. You could be observing in less than five minutes after pulling the...
Will so-called ‘smart’ digital telescopes save us from light pollution? The Unistellar eVscope2, which is the new version of the original eVscope, is a...
Sitting near the top of Explore Scientific’s “ED” series of triplet refractors is the ED127, a 5” aperture f/7.5 apochromatic optical tube assembly. The...
As do many amateur astronomers, I’ve long maintained that a 6- to 8-inch reflector on a Dobsonian mount is as close as you’ll get...
For anyone starting out in the hobby a GoTo telescope is an attractive proposition. Just set it down, turn it on, and in moments...
If you’re looking for the best value in a telescope, offering maximum aperture on a steady, easy-to-use mount, look no further than a Dobsonian...
Japanese manufacturer Vixen has been making excellent telescopes for decades. Although they haven’t quite achieved the name recognition of heavy hitters like Meade, Celestron,...