Price history: It's been cheaper during previous Prime Day and Black Friday events, but this price of $679 is the best we've ...

How does one determine magnification? I have an Edmund Scientific Astroscan, 4-1/8-inch aperture, F/4.2 reflecting telescope, used with a 2.5x Barlow lens and a 28mm Plossl eyepiece.

When you become a young observer of the skies, happy to be out in a dark field at night with a 6-inch or 8-inch scope, you never dream of the kind of night of observing I experienced on Thursday ...

Michael Bakich knows telescopes — really knows telescopes — and these are his tips to know before and after buying one.

A 2-inch telescope will have a primary or “objective” lens with an aperture of about 3 square inches. The lens in a 4-inch telescope has a much larger 12-square-inch light collecting area.

OK, so you've put your hands on a decent starter telescope. We're not talking about one of the cheap 50 mm aperture "department store" scopes, but a good quality 4 to 6-inch aperture scope. You've ...

Object Details maker O. F. Mossberg and Sons Incorporated Location Currently not on view ID Number 1993.0434.11.1 catalog number 1993.0434.11.1 accession number 1993.0434 Object Name Telescope ...

Is this the most ambitious smart telescope yet? No bigger than a thick hardcover book, the DwarfLab Dwarf 3 is an instant must-have smart telescope that can shoot the sun and moon, distant ...

Night after night, as his parents slept, Geoff Marcy clambered out of his bedroom window and onto his San Fernando Valley rooftop to gaze at Saturn’s shifting moons through a used 4 1/4-inch ...

Celestron StarSense Explorer 8-inch Dobsonian telescope review This impressive 'push to' light bucket with smartphone app alignment is an easy way to explore both deep-sky and solar system targets.