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    Best tabletop telescopes, 2023

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    Top tips for helping your family and kids use a telescope

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    The final, corrected image of the Monkey Head and Jellyfish Nebulae. ‘Background Gradient’ and ‘Rounds Stars’ from Georg Hennig’s suite of astronomy plug-ins removed vignetting, flattened the background and refined the stars.
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    A good telescope combined with excellent viewing conditions away from light pollution will give you incredible views of the night sky. Credit: iStock
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    The best night-sky shape to use as a guide is the Plough: it’s large, bright and visible year-round in the northern hemisphere. It has two stars called the 'pointers' that point to Polaris, the North Star. Polaris is almost exactly above Earth’s axis at the North Pole, so doesn’t move and shows which way is north.
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