The universe is vaster than we could ever image and seems the more we learn the more mysterious it becomes. Gazing through a telescope is a fascinating hobby that once started can last a lifetime. Today, we offer up a selection of 10 scopes that are suitable for beginner as well as the seasoned sky watcher. They cover the spectrum of features and any of them can fit into most budgets. Learning about the universe in which we live is an exciting hobby and one that you’ll find rewarding as well. So let’s open the door for you stargazing with 10 of the best that the Net and Amazon has to offer.
10. Gskyer Space Astronomical Refractor Telescope 400x80mm Dual-speed Slow Motion with Aluminum Tripod https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00XQLV11M
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Two eyepieces let you explore the moon, stars and planets. The tripod is sturdy and you have the help of a 3X Barlow multiplier that increases what you see and with that you can have lots to show and tell your friends about the next day. With a few extra attachments you can even have your laptop control where the scope is directed and follow slow moving objects as they traverse the night sky. We give this scope a rating of 4.1 stars.
7. Celestron PowerSeeker 80EQ Telescope https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0007UQNKO Refractors are some of the oldest scopes around. However, they get you close to the celestial object quick a sure. The 80mm on this one gives focal length of 900mm. This is enough magnification to take you to Jupiter and you have a #X Barlow multiplier to go with the eyepieces You also get a precision German made equatorial mount that keeps you pointed and looking at your chosen subject of observation. You can’t go wrong with a Celestron telescope that we rate in at 3.9 stars out of 5.
6. Celestron 31042 AstroMaster 114 EQ Reflector Telescope
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Vixen Space Eye 50mm Telescope 32751 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004WO8UWK A great little scope that a nighttime sky watcher can have fun with, though it is not as powerful as the previous scopes we’ve looked it is a great one for a young person to get their feet wet and learn the basics of stargazing. We feel that in some cases a high powered scope can be detrimental to a beginner as it takes a lot of control and patience to get good results. This scope only weighs 6 pound and is a breeze to set up. This lets you get away from the light for that is getting worse every year even out in the country. With this all taken into account we give this scope a nice 4.6 Star rating out of 5.
Final Thoughts
Today you’ve seen 10 telescopes that are able to bring the universe closer for you to enjoy. Some are reflectors and others are refractors. Each has advantages and drawbacks. However, our selection is broad enough that you’ll find one that catches your eye and you’ll want to put up in your back yard. Find the one that suits and then let Amazon do the rest. Then you can start exploring a experiencing the wonders of the universe for
Distances so vast that the light from those areas in space is billion years old. Illingworth was able to see these ancient giants with the Hubble Space Telescope. A telescope that is high above the atmosphere, because it can distort the image. 100 sextillion miles or 17,010,779,502.32 light years is the most distant galaxy Illingworth
Who has not ever, even if just for a brief moment, looked up at a dark but vividly lit starry night sky and wondered how far those seemingly little lights reach, and if that beauty goes on forever, or if it ends at some point. I believe this question has been pondered by mankind since our creation, and early astronomers are proof of this pondering. Telescopes began as a way for these early astronomers to chart the stars and planets and their movements as they searched for more than what just the naked eye could offer them. In the early 17th century, craftsman began making telescopes, though the tools to invent them had been available for centuries before. Early telescope were called spyglasses and needed improvement. Galileo's Optic Tube, also known as the Galilean telescope is an example of the early creation of refracting telescopes. There were a few different makers and models of refractor telescopes but it was soon discovered they could make a better telescope. With the beginning of the 18th century came the reflecting telescope, which is also called a reflector; an optical telescope that uses either a single curved mirror, or a combination of curved mirrors. There are many types reflecting telescopes: there is the Gregorian telescope, the Cassegrain telescope, and the Ritchey–Chrétien telescope. But today, we are going to be talking about one telescope in particular; "the 200 inch Hale Telescope, which for decades stood as the largest telescope on the planet"(1), from 1948 to 1976. The Hale telescope opened up the skies in ways we never imagined.
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The most technologically advanced part about the telescope is its mirrors and optical capturing system. “The HST is a large reflecting telescope whose mirror optics gather light from c...
2, Alter Dinsmore, Cleminshaw H. Clarence, Philips G John. Pictorial Astronomy. United States: Sidney Feinberg, 1963.
I know that astronomy is getting more popular by the day since the comet came and all those people got killed. But that really did not have anything to do with astronomy, so I am not going to get into that. To me astronomy is really cool. If you have a telescope and it is a clear night you can see different constellations such as: Andromeda, Cassiopeia, Hercules, Pegasus, Perseus there are many more that is so cool. But it is even cooler to look up and see them in the sky. To do all of that you first have to be in the correct place. What you can do first is look for the north star, when you find that then you are all set. If you cannot find it just simply face north and look for the brightest star in that direction. If you still cannot find it buy a compass then hopefully you will find it. If you still cannot find it ask somebody, I made no grantee that you would find it these ways. That is really all I know about astronomy, but after this paper I bet you I will know a whole lot more.
In 1608 Hans Lippershey looked at Jupiter through a thin tube shaped object similar to a telescope. Galileo improved the telescope made by Hans in 1609 by adding a convex lens in the front. The telescope was built with a concave eyepiece and convex lenses. Telescopes were used for improving maps and figuring out the positions and motions of stars early on. Scientists believed that the bigger the lens of a telescope the better, so a man named George E. Hale had created a 100 inch telescope which was finished in 1917. Around the 1920s Edwin Hubble had looked through the telescope towards the sky and had discovered that our galaxy, the Milky Way, was not the only galaxy. He also discovered that our galaxy was expanding. Fifty years later the Hubble was funded to be built. The Hubble was supposed to be launched in 1983, but didn’t end up going into space until 1990. NASA launched the Hubb...
Example #1: This movie of C/1997 T1 (Utsunomiya) was obtained by Tim Puckett on 1997 October 7. It was obtained with a 60-cm reflector and shows the comet's motion over a period of about 75 minutes. The field of view is 9 x 9 arc minutes or about one-third the diameter of the full moon.
The Hubble Space Telescope, named after Edwin Hubble, is an operational telescope orbiting outside the earth’s atmosphere at about 600 km above the surface of the earth. Funded for construction in the 1970s and built by NASA, it was scheduled to launch in 1983. Due to technical difficulties the eventual launch was on the 25th of April, 1990. The Hubble Space Telescope is known as the most useful cosmology tool in use today.
The Hubble Telescope is the world’s first space-based optical telescope. The Hubble telescope received its name from American astronomer Dr. Edwin P. Hubble. Dr. Hubble confirmed an ever expanding universe which provided the basic foundation of the Big Bang theory. The first concept of the Hubble telescope came from Lyman Spitzer in 1946 who at that time was a professor and researcher at Yale University, Professor Spitzer believed that Earth’s atmosphere blurs and distorts light and a space orbited telescope would be able to surpass this problem. He spent nearly all of his life dedicated to making this concept into a reality. (http://hubblesite.org/the_telescope/hubble_essentials/)
During the 1500’s however the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe meticulously studied and plotted the night sky with great accuracy. As telescopes were not invented yet he developed his own tools for measuring astronomy. His methods were so detailed and were within an accuracy of 0.5 arc minutes. His model was a combination of both geocentric and hel...
A telescope is a device used to magnify distant objects. Telescopes can be used to look at things on earth or at objects in space. The telescopes for use on the earth are known as terrestrial telescopes and the telescopes for looking into space are known as astronomical telescopes.
One thing us as humans have never been able to fully understand is astronomy. Always having an unexplained mystery, astronomy also has served as a way to keep time and predict the future. The word “astronomy” is defined as the study of heavenly bodies, meaning anything in the sky such as stars, galaxies, comets, planets, nebulae, and so on. Many people, if not everyone, is amazed by the night sky on a clear, moonless night.
The earliest known telescope was created by Hans Lippershey in 1608. Others have claimed to have made the discovery of telescope but according to documents, he is the earliest who has applied for the patent. The telescope had an convex objective lens and a concave eyepiece.
A refracting telescope magnifies a distant object by using a large aperture objective lens a large objective lens focal length compared to the eyepiece lens focal length. The following equation is used to calculate the magnification of an image through a telescope: