Different types of Telescopes

Are you sure you want to buy a telescope, or you are possibly ready to dip your toes in, or jump right into, the deep and wonderful waters of astronomy, but which telescope is the right one for you? A bad purchase can plague your experience with astronomy forever or good can introduce you to a rewarding, lifelong hobby.

A telescope helps you to let view space, you see distant celestial bodies that you could never see with the naked eye. These devices refract light and magnify it to provide the image you see, but they don’t all do so the same way. Some are affordable and meant for getting started in science, others are high-tech expensive which are built for the professionals to view distant galaxies with the latest and greatest features. Below we will discuss some different types of telescopes.

Refractors are a type of telescope built with lenses that refract light and send it along a focal path within the telescope tube. Refractor telescope provide excellent colour contrast and thus are often used for looking at the moon and planets. They are relatively more expensive per inch of aperture compare to other telescope constructions. This is due to the utilisation of lens prisms which are more expensive to produce.

The Dobsonian telescope is just a reflector telescope, usually fairly large, which sits on top of a simple to operate, sturdy, inexpensive mount that was designed and popularized by John Dobson. The first advantage is its simplicity. It is very intuitive to use as the mount only pans left and right it and up and down, in comparison to an equatorial mount which is designed to compensate for the rotation of the earth.

Unlike a refractor, a reflector telescope uses mirrors to reflect light that has travelled down a tube, into a secondary mirror near the top of the tube directing light into the eyepiece. It is said to be the best value for your money. With the secondary mirror used to redirect the light into a more convenient viewing spot, this mirror can produce diffraction effects. 

It is a refractor scope built to bring astronomy to the masses. It is versatile enough to use with various eyepieces to enhance magnification and economical enough for kids and amateur enthusiasts.Its narrow field of view and 17x magnification are meant to parallel the kind of telescope Galileo would have used.

You can also have a Celestron evolution telescope as it is an impressive set of kits. Each telescope design has its own strength and weaknesses and will be more suitable for certain things and not others. 

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