Stargazer Telescope for Astronomy Kids Children Adults Beginners - Portable Telescopes, 50mm Aperture, 400mm Astronomical Moon Planets Refractor, Eyepieces, Adjustable Tripod, Storage Bag

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Watch the weather reports for any news of warm or cold fronts arriving. These occur when warm or cold air blows in and displaces the air that’s already around you. This displacement causes a lot of turbulence in the atmosphere. Depending on whereabouts in the sky you’re looking, this can make it very difficult to see clearly. If the air above you is settled, you’ll be able to see much farther. Listen out for weather reports talking about high-pressure systems, which bring a few straight days of clear skies. Try to go out on these settled, clear nights to give yourself the best chance! Overall, we think the Celestron NexStar Evolution 9.25 is an excellent option for experienced and dedicated stargazers who are willing to invest in a premium GoTo telescope.

Sky Tonight is another app from Vito Technology, the same company who brought us Star Walk 2, and it is great for gathering lots of interesting information in one place alongside visually pleasing AR effects. When she was volunteering with Cosmos Education, the team had graduate students from the UK and US but no one else from Africa. Despite Murabana’s passion for astronomy, she felt she didn’t belong. Orion Skyline 6-inch Dobsonian Reflector Telescope:A solid choice for beginner and intermediate astronomers thanks to its high-quality optics and ease of use. ★★★★

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It's best to have at least three good quality eyepieces that deliver low, medium and high magnifications — say around 50x, 100x and 200x. Taking as an example a 100 mm f/10 telescope, those eyepieces would be of 20 mm, 10 mm and 5 mm focal length. Let's assume that these particular eyepieces are of the commonly used Plossl variety. A field of view around one degree across (an area of 0.8 square degrees) is given by the 20 mm eyepiece — ideal for sweeping the deep skies and finding objects. The 10 mm eyepiece will just take in the half-degree diameter moon and have a field covering just one-quarter that of the 20 mm eyepiece. With its high magnification, the 5 mm eyepiece has a field of view covering just one-sixteenth that of the 20 mm eyepiece and can only be used when seeing conditions allow. How we test the best telescopes Refractors work by bending — or refracting — the light they gather to give you a view of your astronomical target. Easy to set up, the refractor is best suited to planetary and lunar viewing, using lenses to collect and focus light to form an image, while an eyepiece magnifies the view. This was no easy feat. The telescope was exposed to the open air of Earth’s upper atmosphere. Plus, a balloon drifts, spins and tilts, meaning that engineers had to figure out how to stabilize and point the telescope while it was moving unpredictably. Additionally, it uses a planetarium to generate a 'tonight's best' list of different celestial targets and an algorithm to determine the optimum camera settings for viewing each target. Tech junkies will love this smart telescope.

It has a large aperture of 10 inches and has 48X magnification. It is very easy to set up and has point-and-view navigation. Daniel Chu Owen and Susan Murabana, co-founders of Travelling Telescope. Daniel Chu Owen, Travelling Telescope PhotoPills is especially well-suited for astrophotography involving capturing celestial events behind specific landmarks. You can use the app to plan your shoot and find the perfect spot — capture the Milky Way rising over a mountain or the Andromeda Galaxy setting behind a castle. Once you have your shot, you can share it with the wider PhotoPills community. There, they float above all but a thin slice of Earth’s atmosphere, offering nearly space-like views of the stars and cosmos. These projects are proving that it’s possible to achieve results comparable to those of space telescopes at just a fraction of the time and cost. For telescopes that look deep into the night sky and give amazing shots of our celestial neighbours, you would be hard pressed to find a better one than the Meade Polaris 130EQ MD Reflector. With a variety of different eyepieces, you can choose whether you want to view planets, the lunar surface, stars or distant galaxies – all these different things are available right at your fingertips. What I like about it:Center your subject in the finder scope's frame; there are usually crosshairs or a dot so you know when it's central. Now when you look through your telescope's eyepiece, your subject will be centered here too. The AR on this app is impressive, working both outdoors and indoors by projecting the overlays onto your ceiling. The Plus version has a novel AR feature called 'Planetary Portals' which allows you to tap on a planet or moon within the solar system and then 'step through' the portal to view astronomy data from a new perspective. You can also try your hand at some basic astrophotography via this app, with inbuilt focus, noise reduction and ISO adjustment. If ease of use, portability and convenience are high on your requirements, and you like gadgets, then a short focal length refractor of up to 4-inches or catadioptric (Schmidt- or Maksutov-Cassegrain) up to 5-inches on a computerized mount may well fit the bill. Both types of instruments are versatile performers and will show many deep-sky objects and reveal considerable detail on the moon and planets at high magnification. A few other efforts had already managed to successfully mount telescopes to balloons. These early balloon flights managed to image the Sun in unprecedented detail, as well as make high-resolution observations of the larger cosmos that were hard to get from ground-based telescopes.