Choosing a Telescope When choosing a telescope, you have many
decisions to make. There is no one best scope for everything, so
you have to decide between higher magnification or wider fields
of view, aperture versus price and portability, tracking ability
versus setup time and ease of use, etc. This section will help
you work through those decisions. If you want to learn more
about the types of scopes mentioned here, please refer to the
Intro to Telescopes section. The first decision is what you want
to observe. Where do your main interests lie? Are you primarily
interested in planets? The moon? The sun? Galaxies and nebulas?
In other words, are you more interested in objects with fine
detail, or fainter, more diffuse objects that need to be teased
out of the background sky? If you don't know what you want, then
go back to the getting started page. There is no point in buying
a scope unless you know what you want to look at. That may sound
harsh, but I want you to be happy with your investment - not
disappoin