Buyer's Guides

Thinking about your first scope or looking to upgrade your camera? Our buyer's guides will help you get to grips with what's available.

Automated-observatory-dome

A garden observatory or not? That is the question…

The Small Magellanic Cloud is one of the Milky Way's closest neighbours. While its visible to the naked eye, Hubble is able to show its beauty fully. Credit: NASA, ESA, CXC and the University of Potsdam, JPL-Caltech, and STScI

Astronomy field of view calculator

Revelation Visual Colour Filter Set. Credit: Kerin Smith, Telescope House

Accessorise that telescope!

A set of LRGB filters allows the capture of full colour images of celestial objects using a sensitive mono camera. Read our review of the Astronomik L-RGB Type 2c Colour Filter Set here. Credit: First Light Optics

An astronomer’s guide to filters

Man looking through telescope. Credit: Panther Media GMBH/Alamy Stock Photo

A buyer’s guide to telescopes: getting the most from your equipment

Finderscopes and mounts are basic accessories that will help you - and your telescope - navigate the night sky and locate celestial targets. Credit: BBC Sky at Night Magazine

A buyer’s guide to telescopes: astronomy accessories

Man looking at the stars with telescope beside him. Credit: iStock

A buyer’s guide to telescopes: choosing your first scope

CEM-equatorial-mount

A Basic Guide to Telescope Mounts

Explore-Scientifi header blog

New kit for a new year

Credit: Secret Studio

The importance of eyepieces

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Festive first light?

ZWO-camera

Cool as a camera

$Sky-Watcher Evostar 72ED DS-Pro refractor telescope4$

Telescopes: refractor or reflector?

Hand-Controller

Astronomers’ Helping Hand

BBC Sky at Night Magazine art editor Steve Marsh contemplates the assembly of the massive 20-inch StarGate 500P Dobsonian, during its photoshoot for the April 2018 issue. Credit: Iain Todd / BBC Sky at Night Magazine Carousel image: iStock

Telescopes: how big is too big?