Telescope Reviews and Guides

Orion SkyScanner 100 Review: It’s Cheap, But Is It Good?

The Orion SkyScanner 100 is basically the cheapest good telescope available these days, with a proper parabolic primary mirror to deliver sharp images, enough aperture to show you faint fuzzies, and accessories that aren’t plastic garbage. The scope does have a few concessions due to its low price tag but these are easily ignored. Like […]

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Orion Skyquest XT4.5 Review: Is It Right For You?

The Orion SkyQuest XT4.5 is the smallest of Orion’s XT-series “SkyQuest” Dobsonians, and seldom seen at star parties or astronomy events. It’s a rather niche instrument considering the lower price of shorter 4.5” and even 5” tabletop reflectors, however is a good entry for someone considering a smaller, lower-priced dobsonian. What We Like What We

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Orion StarBlast 6 Tabletop Telescope Review

The Orion StarBlast 6 is a larger counterpart to the 114mm/4.5” StarBlast unit, and like the 4.5” model, comes in two configurations – albeit drastically less different.  The base StarBlast 6 package can also be upgraded to or purchased as the StarBlast 6i, which has no differences whatsoever apart from adding Orion’s IntelliScope controller and

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5 Best Dobsonian Telescopes: Our Epic Guide to Dobs

Dobsonian telescopes are the ultimate tools for observing the vast scintillating unknown. They provide you with far greater apertures than your typical telescope, giving you brighter, clearer views of deep space objects, sating your innate astral curiosities in ways that you never thought possible. So, if that all sounds good to you, fantastic, you’re in

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Celestron NexStar 6SE: Our Epic Review

The Celestron NexStar 6SE is one of Celestron’s more compact Schmidt-Cassegrain telescopes, providing a good balance between aperture and portability. This can be compared to some of Celestron’s other sibling products, the 4SE, 5SE, and 8SE, all of which are similar telescopes at different sizes of aperture. The NexStar 6SE Optical Tube Weighing in at

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Telescope Filters Guide: All You Need To Know

Have you ever tried to view a planet or constellation and thought, “Why can’t I see anything?” If you’re interested in viewing space objects, you’ve probably heard that you should make use of a telescope filter to help to enhance what you see. These are said to bring out more colors and details in the

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Meade ETX-90: A Classic, But Don’t Buy the Wrong One!

Meade’s ETX-90 was a flagship of the company’s product line for decades. Offering high-quality Maksutov-Cassegrain optics in a portable and affordable package, the ETX-90 was originally designed to compete with the Questar, a widely revered premium telescope that continues to cost over $5,000 USD new. The Questar debuted in 1958 and has remained unchanged since.

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