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.