Telescope Buying Guide

Eagle asked:


I have a pretty good Telescope, and im looking to sell it, already tried craigslist and ebay so im sorta looking for a store or somthing somone knows that will take this off my hands.

Chris YoYo asked:


I want to buy a telescope for amateur astronomy. I know nothing about telescopes.

Can you tell me things like -

Brands to look for, which ones to avoid?
Specifications I should be looking at?
Best place in UK or on internet to buy from?

I’m an absolute novice in this area so any help would be appreciated.

vnghy asked:


I need a portable telescope that’s easy to set-up and work as I am a rookie. Any suggestions for under a 1000 $ Cdn I’d appreciate your coments. There are two that I’ve been looking at, the Pronto & the Ranger? Any good?

water_skipper asked:


How does an x-ray telescope work? Everybody knows you can’t focus x-rays with lenses. Does an x-ray telescope use mirrors then? I’ve never heard of x-rays bouncing off mirrors either. How are the x-rays focused in the telescope?

water_skipper asked:


How does a telescope work different from a camera lense? I’m specifically wondering about magnification. With a camera lense, a longer lense means higher magnification so to get really high magnification it needs a really long lense. With a telescope they just change the eyepiece to get higher magnification and don’t change the length of the telescope.. How is it telescopes can change magnification like that and camera lenses can’t? I asked this question under physics already and didn’t get any decent answers.

kong asked:


What brand and model is a nice inexpensive starter telescope. I understand the more you spend the better the pictures. I would like to be able to see galaxies.

alreffin2002 asked:


I have and olympus e400 and would like to use it to take pictures with my telescope (helios explorer). How do I go about doing this?

Dave asked:


I’m thinking about getting a telescope, but I’m not exactly sure how these things work. If you were to get one of the better ones for a couple hundred dollars or so, what exactly do these telescopes do? And how well can you see things in outer space with the telescopes? If you were to look at Mars with one of these telescopes, how well would you be able to see it? Whoever have one of the nice telescopes, can you tell me how it works, what you can see, and how well you can see it? thanks alot guys

falling_starz asked:


I mean, when it says 10-cm telescope does it refer to its aperture (which, I think, is the light collecting area right?) or its the diameter of the primary mirror (for a reflecting telescope)?

jackssid2001 asked:


My father-in-law gave this to my son and I can’t find any info on the internet. It is just the telescope with no other equipment. Thank you!