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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As with so many other things in life, education can help you avoid making frustrating mistakes. If you’re a beginner, a few minutes reading this article before you buy a telescope can save you a lot of disappointment later. Making an informed choice can get you a scope that will provide you with many years of enjoyment. The SloKey Skyways 40070 Telescope is lightweight and easy to set up, making it a convenient choice for amateur astronomers:

NO COMMITMENT – The simple design of the Slokey 40070 makes it perfect for easy set-up and for you to enjoy every observing session. The tripod is adjustable and can be used by youngsters as well as adults: the power of the 40070 makes it fun and professional. And thanks to its small size and weight, you can easily take it everywhere.

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It’s smartphone adaptor also mean you can use it to shoot stills and videos of the breath-taking views you catch with this scope.

The Bresser Classic telescope features a 70mm aperture, with three eyepieces for sky viewing – 4mm, 12.5mm, and 20mm. It has an 18x-140x potential magnification and a 350mm focal length that enables a wide viewing area to be accessed through the tube. The 5×24 viewfinder has a hair cross design for easy and specific targeting. An erecting prism is also incorporated into the refractor design to create an upright, correct image for observation. 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.

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Conclusion: Even the difference between supposedly "excellent" and "superb" optics is, during fine seeing, visible to anyone -- even beginners -- who looks through the scope really carefully. And who doesn't want to look through their scope carefully? 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.