Pick up almost any book that talks about telescopes, eyepieces, and magnification, and the author will probably expound the “60x-per-inch rule” or “2.4x per millimeter.” This means you shouldn’t pump ...

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From nebulas and galaxies to star clusters, the sun and the moon, here’s what to image in the night sky using a smart ...

The article discusses three main telescope types: refractors (best for bright objects, portable), reflectors (best for faint objects, larger apertures), and catadioptrics (compromise between aperture ...

Michael J. I. Brown receives research funding from the Australian Research Council and Monash University. While the unaided eye or binoculars can reveal much of the night sky, a telescope reveals so ...

Refractor to reflector, Schmidt-Cassegrain to Maksutov-Cassegrain - this is everything you need to know about the different types of telescopes. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

We’ve all seen spectacular pictures of space, and it’s easy to assume that’s how it looks to the naked eye through a nice telescope. But in most cases, that’s simply not true. Space is rather dark, so ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. As far as hobbies go, there aren't many that will leave you as stunned as stargazing. With countless celestial bodies and cosmic wonders that ...