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WictImov t1_ixjiift wrote

I am not familiar with that telescope, but from the picture, I see it has a very flimsy-looking tripod. As someone else mentioned, you are probably better sticking with a Dobsonian mount which is used on reflecting telescopes. While there are excellent refractors out there as well, they are well over $1000 entry cost and need an equally expensive tripod or other mount. With a flimsy tripod, you will not get a stable image. The higher magnification you use the worse it will get. That is why many people are turned off of astronomy, they got the wrong equipment to begin with.

Low-end refractors are fairly good in many respects but suffer from chromatic aberration (can't bring different colours into focus). That can be corrected with better optics, and that is why people pay much more. A good refractor makes an excellent telescope, but will not be cheap compared to an equivalent reflector (light gathering).

Reflector telescopes don't have the above problem (a mirror reflects the entire spectrum equally). The other advantage of reflector telescopes is that for the same objective size they are far cheaper, or for the same money you can get a much larger objective size and collect a lot more light. A 6" reflector will collect almost 4.5 times the light as the 72mm refractor.

Dobsonian mounts are more stable for the dollar than a tripod. Dobsonian mounts require a reflector telescope. A Dobsonian telescope is a reflector telescope on a Dobsonian mount.

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ghost4278 OP t1_ixjl6aq wrote

Wow this is an information goldmine. Thank you so much

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