Tag Archives: Astronomy

How To Choose Telescope Eyepieces

Telescope

For those who are just getting into learning about telescopes, you may feel a little overwhelmed by all of the choices you have available concerning telescope eyepieces. With a little background knowledge and deciding what exactly you are interested in using your telescope for, you can confidently choose a telescope eyepiece to fit all of […]

Telescope Buyer’s Guide

Telescope

This guide is from our experience with telescope customers and hope it is simple and helpful in helping you choose a telescope! Towards that end, the first and in some ways only rule of telescopes is: Aperture is King! Aperture is the diameter of the main lens or mirror of the telescope. The bigger it […]

Understanding Astronomy Eyepieces

Solar Shadow

The purpose of an eyepiece is to magnify the focused image, and different eyepieces can be used to give different magnifications and fields of view. You will need to experiment with different ones to find the best one for a particular application. For example, if you want to observe a large area of sky, you […]

Planet Observing

Planet

Observing the planets of our solar system with a telescope is an enjoyable part of amateur astronomy. And unlike other forms of observing, such as deep-sky, it can be done from the center of a city as well as out in the country. No travel required. If it is clear, we can quickly set up […]