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Telescope for Astronomy for Adult Beginners - Profesional, Portable and Powerful 20x-250x - Easy to Mount and Use - Astronomical Telescope for Moon, Planets and Stargazing - Includes a 2-Year Warranty

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Optical Quality... The Slokey 40070 can reach a maximum magnification of 120x. The lenses are treated with an FMC ("Fully Multi Coated") coating and composed with a green layer that helps increase the brightness of celestial objects.

As we all know, there is a vast amount of information out there about a huge range of different scopes. It can be really hard to whittle this down into “What is the best telescope for me?” Well, now you don’t have to whittle, because I have done it for you! When you feel comfortable with that, go for a small Dobsonian such as the Astroblast. (I only wish they could have put a Crayford focuser, but...) This is the ideal telescope for beginners and hobbyists... You will get an adjustable power of 20x, 50x, 60x, 83x, 150x and 250x magnification for maximum detail. What you want for your telescope is a good low-power eyepiece, probably a 32-mm or 25-mm Plössl, and a medium-power eyepiece, around a 10-mm Plössl. You can increase your collection as you gain experience.I guess, in closing, it's not necessarily the aperture that kills things for a beginner, it's the complexity. I buy and sell nearly constantly, helps me to get some excellent gear and I nearly always make money at it. I've sold some scopes with equatorial mounts since to new users, I made sure to go over how the mount works before taking money. So far, everyone seems happy.

This Slokey telescope has a phone adapter that helps you to locate celestial bodies, eliminating the need to do so manually. Moreover, it has a red dot finder scope for the manual location of heavenly bodies. The SkyWays set likewise comes with a lightweight and fully adjustable alt-azimuth tripod that has a height range of 49cm to 132cm. The lower height option is a viable reason why it’s considered as one of the best telescopes for kids. mm aperture and 500 mm focal length, resulting in precise, high-resolution images for deep sky exploration. No knowledge necessary!” the ads will say. Aside from the fact that most of us get into astronomy to learn stuff, that’s seldom true anyway. With a low-end Go To scope (which is what the computerized ones are called), you’re likely to learn quite a bit of computer debugging and maybe even mechanical repair skills before you even get your first look through one. Seriously, I have seen people spend their entire night fiddling with the electronics, trying in vain to get the computer to work properly, and never once getting to look at anything in the sky. Yes people-children get into astronomy to learn, and learning about how telescopes work is about as important as, for example those who wish to take up photography need to know how cameras work. Point and shoot photography is as point and shoot astronomy . It is entry by consumerism. As GH Martin posted above, not only do they need to know how to find their way around the sky they need to know too about how their telescope works. The 1/2-wave scope was so obviously inferior to everyone, expert or beginner, that we eventually put it aside to save time. The big finding was that during times of fine seeing, *nearly everyone* -- experienced or not -- was able to see that the image shown by the 1/8-wave mirror was less good than with the 1/20-wave mirror.

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learn the night shy. Sit down on a good night with a modest sky atlas or constellation finder and a pair of binoculars. My thinking was that for a kid to get interested in astronomy, he or she needs first to be able to find their way around the sky. The star atlas will show the beginner where to look to find clusters, nebulae, the Andromeda galaxy, etc., and the binocs will whet their interest enough to learn more and want to see them in more detail. THEN is when they'll be ready for a telescope. At any rate, he or she will still need the binoculars when they have a telescope, so the binocs are the perfect "starter". Of course, if they have the advantage of living where there is a good astronomy club or society with telescopes for the members to use, they won't have to buy a scope at all!

You can create a “sky tour” of all the best celestial bodies, based on your exact time and location Every January my astronomy club hosts a telescope workshop in which we help people learn how to use the telescopes they got for the holidays or tune up scopes that have been gathering dust in closets. And every year we face the same problem: how to gently tell some of them that what they’ve got is better suited for a boat anchor than for astronomy. While this scope may look pretty good, its equatorial mount, lousy finder, 60-mm aperture, 0.965-inch eyepiece, and 3× Barlow make it a hobby killer.

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On the other hand, a good computerized mount can be an amazing experience. Several manufacturers now build systems that recognize the star field when you power them on and reliably know where to go when you tell them what you want to look at. It’s just that these good systems cost a fair amount of money, and you’re unlikely to get a good one at a beginner’s-scope price. The Orion StarBlast 4.5 tabletop reflector is an excellent starter scope. Recommendations Figuring out your surroundings is key – it’s no good getting a telescope that might not be suitable for your particular area, because you will only end up frustrated when you can’t see anything! Age and strength counts for something. "The best telescope is the one you use most often." True, with the exception of anything like what the author has laid out. I built my own 8" F/6 Dob 23 years ago, and the old bones are feeling that 30-lbs per section lift and carry; (plus chairs, eyepiece case, etc... it's in better shape than I am! ...hey, _I_ might wind up with a Starblast myself! (With a few mods....) In the early days of telescopes, eyepieces were single pieces of glass that essentially acted as magnifying lenses that let you examine the image created at the focal plane by the objective lens or primary mirror. Modern eyepieces do the same job, but they use many more lens elements to correct for color fringing and other optical aberrations.

You don’t need tools to assemble Celestron’s 21049 Powerseeker and the job shouldn’t take more than a few minutes. So you can be set up and observing in next to no time, making this scope ideal for impromptu observing sessions on clear nights that creep up unexpectedly. Using a Barlow lens will increase the magnification, but it will also reduce the image quality and also the effective aperture, so the image will not be as bright and contrasty. I would suggest forgetting about the Barlow lens (at least initially), and just work your way up from the 25mm eyepiece to the 6mm. There is no point in using the 25mm eyepiece with the Barlow, since that will only give you 60x magnification, and trying to use the 6mm eyepiece with the Barlow is likely to prove frustrating, if not unworkable.

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You will get 3 eyepieces of 25 mm, 10 mm and 6 mm that will provide incredible views of celestial objects during the night and terrestrial objects during the day... You will also get a 3x Barlow lens that will give you 3 times more magnification... Offering adjustable power of 20x, 50x, 83x, 150x and 250x to adapt to any situation... Get it Today... Take advantage of this offer You will get incredible clarity and luminosity with sharp and brilliant images thanks to its excellent optics... You will also get a SUPER powerful telescope lens with a professional design, robust, stable and easy to mount... so you can have a clear vision of the Moon, Planets and Galaxies... Easy to use even for beginners... It will be the perfect gift for any adult beginner or amateur... Cost - Quality... The affordability of the Slokey 40070 telescope makes it the ideal choice for beginners looking for a telescope that meets a good quality to cost ratio.

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