Telescope Buying Guide

Chris G asked:


I have a 4.5in reflector telescope, and I wanted to know what Nebula I could best observe with it. I live in Pennsylvania, so you know what i am capable of seeing.

astronomer asked:


Hi, I am having problems viewing the moon under my reflector telescope. I use one with 90X magnification but sometimes all I see is white light.

How can I view the surface of the moon well?

planck12 asked:


The manual suggests aligining the telescope with polaris and then using just the RA knob to track objects and keep then in the field of view.

Isn’t this possible only if the object close to the North Celestial pole. Say for instance saturn is somewhere in the east rising and the telescope is pointing towards polaris, how can a person point towards saturn without changing the direction using the azimuth knob.

The manual says after the telescope is polar aligned there is no need to touch the azimuth direction nor the dec direction and only the RA can be changed to track objects.

I do not understand !!!!

Thanks

Jessy C asked:


Using a 8-m reflector telescope on Mars, what is the maximum distance we could measure using stellar parallax?

C B asked:


My son wants a telescope for Christmas, but we’re pretty uneducated as to which kind to get. He is 10, but extremely smart and interested. We don’t want a piece of junk, but yet we want something good enough to support his interest. Advice??

VicToriA :: asked:


I accidently bought a telescope online but that doesn’t matter since I wanted one anyway. Which telescopes are good and which are bad? Any suggestions for me?
Fotar Astral Observer reflector telescope NIB

Features: All Glass Coated Optics Finderscope Interchangeable eyepieces (SR4, H20) 675X Max. Power 900mm Focal Length 114mm Objective lens dia. Equatorial mount

What does this mean?