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Telescope buying guide

The Christ­mas shop­ping sea­son is upon us, and a child’s fancy often turns to thoughts of tele­scopes. I’ve had sev­eral requests to expand on my com­ments about tele­scope buy­ing and the acces­sories asso­ci­ated there­with, so here goes:

Telescopes for Christmas

Up at Perkins Obser­va­tory, we get an enor­mous num­ber of calls this time of year about buy­ing tele­scopes. The best advice I can give is, “Don’t rush into a pur­chase.” You’ll find a lot of junk tele­scopes out there, and you need to make a thought­ful deci­sion about what you put under the tree.

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