Slokey Telescope for Astronomy - Portable and Powerful 16x-120x Travel Scope - Easy to Mount and Use - Ideal for Kids and Beginner Adults - Astronomical Telescope for Moon, Planets and Stargazing

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Equatorial mounts are not just difficult to use, they’re difficult to even comprehend at first. Simply trying to figure out how to orient the thing has killed the enthusiasm of many would-be astronomers. The included tripod and mounting system provide stability and ease of use. This benefits amateur astronomers in the following ways: Celestron’s PowerSeeker telescope features a 70mm aperture and a 700mm focal length. It comes with a Barlow lens, a 20mm and a 4mm eyepieces for 35x and 175x magnified viewing. A 5×24 finderscope is attached to the side of the main scope and an alt-azimuth aluminium tripod mount with a convenient accessory tray is also included. This telescope features an erecting eyepiece for easier viewing, a 5×24 finder scope located on the side, and a convenient phone adapter that allows you to take videos and pictures. The phone adapter also helps with searching for celestial bodies and can act as a finder. This telescope set weighs only 2.07kg, including the lightweight aluminium alt-az tripod with retractable legs. No tools are required for setup.

The SloKey Skyways 40070 Telescope is lightweight and easy to set up, making it a convenient choice for amateur astronomers: While this scope may look pretty good, its equatorial mount, lousy finder, 60-mm aperture, 0.965-inch eyepiece, and 3× Barlow make it a hobby killer. This Schmidt-Cassegrain compound telescope features a 5-inch aperture, a 25mm eyepiece, an f/10 focal ratio, and its highest theoretical magnification is 295x. The sturdy steel tripod has an updated single fork arm design that is compact and works best placed on a steady surface. The entire Celestron NexStar set up can be disassembled for easier transport and weighs 28 lbs in total.Having taught Jr. Hi science for 27 years and being a member of our local astronomical society for most of that time, I fielded many questions from parents about what telescope they should get their kid for Christmas, birthday, or whatever. My advice -- get TWO telescopes! Actually, a pair of binoculars, which are really two telescopes hinged together in the middle. At the time I was teaching, the best value in a pair of binoculars suitable for astronomy would be a pair of 7x35s, which would also be a good size (weight wise) for a 12 to 14 yr.old to handle. That, and a decent, easy-to-use but comprehensive star atlas along with a constellation finder star wheel. Decide what it is you actually want to see. If you are happiest looking at the moon in detail, or a few of our closest neighbours, then your requirements for the best telescope will be different than if you want to observe deep space. Of course, the Celestron Travel Scope does have some room to grow and improve when it comes to the mount and the lenses but you can easily upgrade these components when and if you are ready to maximise the scope’s abilities.

It’s worth borrowing a friend’s telescope, or popping along to a local astronomy club to try before you buy, as it were. This way you can also get a feel of what you like and don’t like, and start to get an idea about the best telescope for you to invest in. What you want for your telescope is a good low-power eyepiece, probably a 32-mm or 25-mm Plössl, and a medium-power eyepiece, around a 10-mm Plössl. You can increase your collection as you gain experience. Every January my astronomy club hosts a telescope workshop in which we help people learn how to use the telescopes they got for the holidays or tune up scopes that have been gathering dust in closets. And every year we face the same problem: how to gently tell some of them that what they’ve got is better suited for a boat anchor than for astronomy. Anything below about 3 inches (76 mm) in aperture is likely to be too small to provide a pleasing view of anything more than the Moon and a few bright star clusters. Small scopes tend to be low-quality, too, with uncorrected objective lenses that display color fringing around bright objects and often won’t even come to sharp focus. So as a general rule, stay above three inches in aperture. There are, of course, some very high-end small scopes, mostly optimized for astrophotography. The price tag will tell you which is which. When I was starting as a teen I had a 6-inch reflector on a heavy old Edmund EQ mount, and its motions definitely helped me find my way. Accurate polar alignment not required; just plunk it down with the polar axis aimed more or less at Polaris.It offers great views of the Moon and planets of the Solar System and comes with a Bluetooth-enabled smartphone adapter so you can shoot stills and video remotely (preventing you from shaking the scope when you press the button to start recording). More and more lately you’ll find hobby killers that have been computerized. The computer itself doesn’t necessarily make it a hobby killer, although it can if the mount is a piece of junk, which most of the truly low-end ones are. It’s just that putting a lousy little scope on a computerized mount doesn’t make the scope perform any better. Ads can be deceptive. Don't be fooled by outrageous marketing claims! A telescope’s aperture is the size or diameter of the main or objective lens. Aperture is the most important feature to consider when buying a telescope. A larger aperture means a brighter image, better details and the ability to see deeper into the sky. 3. How to make a telescope more powerful? How to increase the magnification of a telescope?

The 1/2-wave scope was so obviously inferior to everyone, expert or beginner, that we eventually put it aside to save time. The big finding was that during times of fine seeing, *nearly everyone* -- experienced or not -- was able to see that the image shown by the 1/8-wave mirror was less good than with the 1/20-wave mirror. Using an eyepiece with a shorter focal length will increase the magnification of your telescope. This is handy for observing the moon and planets. Attaching a Barlow lens to your eyepiece is another way to make your telescope more powerful (increase magnification). 4. How to aim a telescope? Deep-Sky Objects: The aperture size enables the observation of various deep-sky objects, including star clusters, nebulae, and galaxies. While not suitable for detailed observations of faint objects, it provides a good introduction to these celestial wonders.

Guess which kind you get with a hobby killer? Most of them come with “Huygens” eyepieces, which were state of the art when Christiaan Huygens invented them . . . in the 1660s. We’ve advanced a bit since then. You want at least Kellners, or better yet, Plössls. Plössl eyepieces are probably the best value you can get in an inexpensive eyepiece. Avoid scopes that use 0.965″ eyepieces. Left to right: 0.965″, 1¼″, and 2″ eyepieces. EXCEPTIONAL OPTICAL QUALITY – The 70 mm aperture and 400 mm focal length guarantee a high viewing capacity. The lenses of the Skyways 40070 are treated with FMC technology, which makes the image resolution higher, sharper and brighter than in other telescopes. Observe all the most vivid details of Mars, the Moon, Venus and much more.