When you are in the market of buying a telescope, you want to make sure it has gotten good reviews. There are many different ways of gathering information and finding a review on telescopes. Getting telescope reviews from magazines is dominantly the best place to acquire them. A good magazine like sky and telescope has been known for their excellent reviews. They review not only telescopes but accessories too. Comparing telescopes with a pros and cons list can be very helpful in magazines. When looking for a particular model of telescope your local library will have back issues of several astronomy magazines that may have reviews. Internet, the internet is a very good and fast way of finding telescope reviews. The internet has an abundance of telescope review pages; you just need to know where to look. Many community sites are dedicated to reviews and answering any questions you have, if you post in their forums. And not only does sky and telescope have a great magazine they also host an informative web site, where you can easily search for reviews they have published in the past. Your local astronomy club, attending a local star gazing meeting is also a good way to learn about a telescope you are thinking about purchasing. Someone at one of the meets may just have that model and let you look through it. Easiest way to find a local astronomy club is do a search in msn or yahoo, make sure to add your location into the search. When reading telescope reviews, it boils down to personal preference. What may be great to someone may very well be horrible for you. Lastly, keep in mind when reading a review, the person who wrote the article may be a novice that hasn't quite learned what they are talking about. |
