Amateur Astronomy for Beginners: Learning About Telescope Eyepieces
October 3rd, 2010 Subscribe To Our Feed
Another training video providing the basics of telescope eyepieces and how to select the proper eyepiece for your particular application and even more importantly, your budget. Amateur astronomy involves a significant amount of training and practice to get the full enjoyment out of your beginner telescope.
Even if you are using a kids telescope, understanding the basics of beginning astronomy will surely make your star gazing experience more enjoyable. So, sit back and watch our astronomy expert explain the telescope eyepiece in terms geared for the beginner astronomer:
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Amateur Astronomy for Beginners: Align the Finderscope
September 28th, 2010 Subscribe To Our Feed
This is a continuation of our astronomy basics for beginners video series to help you get the most out of your beginner telescope. If you are using a child telescope and watching this with your child, you will probably want to further explain the concepts to him or her. However, this lesson is extremely important to learn with the goal of making your telescope viewing as pleasureable as possible. Your telescope’s finderscope is often confusing for the beginner astronomer, but our expert starts with the basics and goes from there:
We hope you enjoy this beginner astronomer video and continue to follow as we post more in this series.
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A Kids Telescope To Expand Your Youngster’s Universe
October 5th, 2008 Subscribe To Our Feed
If your young star gazer seems to have a fascination with the stars and planets, consider buying them a beginner telescope. We are not talking about a toy or a pirate’s plastic telescope, but a real quality telescope designed specifically for novice star gazers. Now it is important to choose a telescope that allows for optimal viewing of celestial bodies while providing a clear magnified view of your targeted celestial bodies. A telescope that has these capabilities will provide for a more positive experience for your star gazer and heighten their interest in the world of astronomy .
What Type of Child Telescope Should You Consider?
With fewer moving parts and a simplistic, well-crafted design, the refracting telescope design has been highly recommended by some experts as one of the best beginner telescopes. Others believe that an easy-to-use reflecting telescope is the better telescope for novices. In making your decision, a good source of information is the telescope reviews found on many online telescope websites. But, whatever your choice, select the model that is tailored for new telescope users and one that can be set-up quickly and can be aligned and operates easily.
While a child telescope cannot offer custom or state of the art optics, ones from reputable manufacturers are generally quite satisfactory. A word of warning though — It is generally best to avoid “department store” telescopes. These are generally of lower quality and designed for mass production at the expense of quality.
Why You Should Start with a Child Telescope
The reasons we suggest that you start on a smaller scale is that you want to avoid the frustration of attempting to use an advance telescope without training and experience. A beginner telescope will afford you with a great number of opportunities to view the stars and planets while you learn the basics of stargazing. The cost of a child telescope can vary from two hundred to twenty five hundred dollars, but we would suggest that you look for telescopes in the $300 to $600 price range.
So if your novice astronomer is ready to start on their journey to the stars, take a “right” at the Sea of Tranquility and fly yourself into deep space by visiting the Crab Nebula. Its really easier than you think, thanks to the strong magnification , precision optics and simple operating controls of the child telescope .
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