Choosing the best telescope for the money depends to a large extent on what you hope to see. If you want to scan distant nebulas, you can pay $1,000 and up, and it will still be good value. If you ...

Reflecting (Or Newtonian) Telescopes Early telescopes were all refracting telescopes of the kind Galileo made. While they revolutionized the science of astronomy, they had some innate downsides.

Reflecting telescopes with glass, rather than metal, mirrors became popular in the 20th century. Glass mirrors produce much clearer images than metal mirrors and won't tarnish as easily.

For those new to telescopes, the Celestron 114LCM is a Newtonian reflecting telescope. Invented by the English scientist Sir Isaac Newton, this type of telescope uses a concave primary mirror and ...

Assuming you have now collimated your reflecting telescope, then the rest is now the same whatever telescope you have. #1 rated Beginner Telescope. Celestron NexStar 130SLT Computerized Telescope.

Hardly! In a past column (April 2011), I sang the praises of my first astronomical telescope, Edmund Scientific’s Space Conqueror, a 3-inch f/10 reflector.

Reflecting telescopes provide the best bang for the buck. They gather light with mirrors, passing it through a glass in an eyepiece on the side for magnification.

My first telescope was a 2.5-inch Gilbert reflector my parents bought for me in about 1964. It wasn't easy to use, but I remember looking at the moon, Mars and Saturn with it.

As of 2013, the largest reflecting telescope in the world is the Gran Telescopio Canarias in La Palma, Spain, with a mirror diameter of 34.2 feet (10.4 meters).