Product Guides

Telescope Buyers’ Guides

Best Telescopes

Our expert’s telescope recommendations ranging from $100 to $2500

Best Kids’ Telescopes

Low budgeted(<$400) telescope recommendations for elementary school-aged kids

Best Dobsonian Telescopes

$300+ Dobsonians, the best-designed scopes that give the best bang for your buck

Best Planetary Telescopes

$350+ Dob and GoTo telescope recommendations for imaging planets

Best Computerized Telescopes

$350+ computerized telescopes with hands free automatic tracking.

Best Refractor Telescopes

$150+ telescopes with higher visual contrast and unmatched convenience

Best Schmidt-Cassegrain Telescopes

$1000+ compact, low maintenance, super optics telescopes, mostly from Celestron.

Best Solar Telescopes

$100+ dedicated solar telescopes that show solar flares and prominences

Best Portable Telescopes

$100-$2000 telescopes that you’d like to travel with

Telescope Accessories Guides

Best Telescope Eyepieces

$50-$300 eyepieces to optimize your viewing experience with your telescope. We also have stand-alone guides on Goldline eyepieces, Zoom eyepieces, Plossl eyepieces, and TeleVue eyepieces.

Best Telescope Filters

A single guide to knowing the best light pollution, solar, color, and deep sky filters for specific use cases. We also have a stand-alone guide on Solar Filters.

Best Barlow Lenses

High-quality Barlow lenses to increase eyepiece magnification choices while using telescopes

Best Telescope Finderscopes

5 each recommendations from the finderscope categories of Red-dot, Straight-through, and right-angle (RACI)

Best Stargazing Laserpointers

Green laser pointer recommendations and guide written with a safety-first approach.

Best Smartphone Astronomy Adapters

Smartphone adapter recommendations to control and do basic astrophotography with telescopes

Best Collimators (Cheshire & Laser)

A must have accessory for the alignment of Newtonian reflecting telescopes.

Best Star Diagonals

Prism and Mirror Star Diagonal Recommendations in 1.25″ and 2″ formats

Astrophotography Guides

Best Astrophotography Telescopes (OTA Only)

$500+ telescope (optical tube only) recommendations for photographing deep-sky objects (DSO’s)

Best Computerized Mounts

$400-$5000 computerized mounts that would fit your visual and mainly astrophotography needs.

Best Equatorial Mounts

$850+ EQ mounts for perfect astrophotography of deep-sky objects

Best StarTrackers

$250-$1000 star trackers that can hold cameras or small telescopes for long-exposure astrophotography

Best Astrophotography Cameras

$450+ telescope recommendations for photographing deep-sky objects (DSO’s)

Best Autoguiders and Guide Scopes

$75+ guide cameras and guide scopes for long exposure astrophotography

Miscellaneous Buying Guides

Best Astronomical Binoculars

For a budget less than $100, binoculars are a much better choice than a cheap telescope

Best Home Planetariums

Entertainment oriented home planetariums and star projectors for kids and enthusiasts

Best Astronomy Flashlights

Flashlights(mainly red lighted) to navigate without ruining your night vision

Best US Telescope Retailers

Know where to buy your next telescope and accessories from.