Budget: Up to $1K
Environment: I live in rural Oregon east of the cascades. Big, dark sky.
Objective: Check out planets and relatively near earth sights
Hope: I can use
Other: No need for transport. Easy to set up.
Any thoughts?
turboscrew wrote: ↑Sun Aug 08, 2021 6:53 am BTW, what was wrong with the binoculars? (Just that it may affect the telescope selection.)
Larry 1969 wrote: ↑Sun Aug 08, 2021 3:36 pm Here's a decent read about what to avoid.
https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-e ... ot-to-buy/
Larry
Do we have a "Gee, I wish I hadn't bought that" thread?
I agree.GCoyote wrote: ↑Mon Aug 09, 2021 2:32 pm
IMO when figuring out what to buy next, a positive forum conversation like this is orders of magnitude more helpful than the usual ratings, reviews, and other generic Internet sources of information. The forum community provides a level of context that is missing from the usual sources.
Yes, that's the key. Too many discussions in other forums devolve into trading insults.
And often reviews basically "compare products to themselves" - just facts that you could read from the brochures.
As it turns out, that is a very good question to ask now days.Bigzmey wrote: ↑Tue Aug 10, 2021 6:59 pm Welcome on board Mark! Would you like to have a telescope with manual mount to learn how to read star charts and navigate to target manually, or you would prefer to use GoTo mount, which once set up correctly will find the target for you and keep it in the view by tracking it?
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