Buying A Telescope

Walking around the Earth may seem like we are on a big place, a big world. The universe is infinitely bigger and has a lot more things to look at! You need a telescope, but buying a telescope is not that easy. There are not that many stores. In this article, we will look at buying a telescope.

In this article, you will discover:
* Why Buy A Telescope?
* The Best Part Of Owning A Telescope
* Types Of Telescope
* Buying Your First Telescope

* Why Buy A Telescope?
It may seem like an obvious answer, but why buy a telescope? A telescope allows you to discover more about our universe, to see worlds bigger than Earths. To see the beauty that has been painted throughout our universe.

Whatever your reasons, whether to learn, discover, or have fun in seeing new things, a telescope is a great addition to every home. You can also see the planets, and do experiments.

* The Best Part Of Owning A Telescope
The best part of owning a telescope is that let's say you look up one night, and see something bright, a sparkling star? Perhaps it's a planet? Owning a telescope would allow you to point straight up at it and discover something.

There are many good things with owning a telescope. You can do some amazing experiments. For example look at Jupiter and the configuration of the moons. Then 24 hours later you could look again, see the differences, and over a period of time extrapolate the time it takes for there revolutions.

Obviously this information has accurately been able to be made already, so the discovery wouldn't make the headlines! However it still is fun to do such experiments or the experiment of measuring the distance of Jupiter to us, to figure out the speed of light! A telescope can be immense fun. Imagine finding comets and meteors!

* Types Of Telescope
There are 2 main types of telescope. 1 is the refractor telescope, which is the famous design, where you have a long tube where the light enters from the front, and goes to the back where the light passes a lens to your eye.

Another type is the reflector which was invented by Isaac Newton. This telescope has a more fat tube, where it has a mirror at the back. The light hits the back, and comes to meet a secondary mirror near the top, where it projects into the eye through a lens.

* Buying Your First Telescope
Buying your first telescope need not be difficult. There are not that many stores available, so another alternative is looking in telescope magazines. An extremely easy method is to go online, where there is a huge selection to go through.

Companies such as Meade, Celestron and Orion make great telescopes. Buying a telescope is easy online, and can be delivered to your home! Make sure you invest $200+ to be able to get a good telescope with good optics and tripod and mount.