Telescope Buying Guide

Veronica asked:


I want to buy my boyfriend a telescope for his birthday. He is turning 25 on Feb 12 and he loves anything that has to do with space and earth. He is a beginner on telescopes, but i want to buy him a really cool one that is easy to use and at a reasonable price. A telescope that you can see the planets with would be nice, like Jupiters rings, and other cool things as well.

Veronica asked:


I want to buy my boyfriend a telescope for his birthday. He is turning 25 on Feb 12 and he loves anything that has to do with space and earth. He is a beginner on telescopes, but i want to buy him a really cool one that is easy to use and at a reasonable price. A telescope that you can see the planets with would be nice, like Saturns rings, and other cool things as well.

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.

daisie_h asked:


I recently bought a Venture RX 9 telescope. it didn’t come with the manual/instructions or a cd rom. i know the very basics of telescopes. if anyone has info on this type of telescope please help.

Nick G asked:


Suppose that you have 2 telescopes with the same aperture, Telescope A has a focal length 3 times longer than that of telelscope B. How would the image size differ in telescope A from that in telescope B?

Inder Kumar asked:


Hi, i’m very found of sky gazing. But i don’t have any idea what type of telescope in suitable for me. Please suggest the type of telescopes available and where could i buy those in bangalore.

Mathuroindia asked:


I want a telescope that can view objects in deepspace clearly, and is not too pricey. I am a beginner at stargazing but I know a lot about what is out there. But I just wanna see em too instead of just googling the images. Got any tips, and telescope models? I am open to anything.
Ok really nice post B, I will certainly check out Orions telescopes.. My dad is really into astrology so he can help me with finding stars and the such.

Mathuroindia asked:


I would like to know the components of a telescope. Like, all the parts in some detail, and types of mirror lenses. Basically I would like to know the lingo of telescopes so to say ^.^ Thanks to all that help!

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?

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.