Astronomy with a Budget Telescope

Sir Patrick Moore, CBE, FRS, has long been the scourge of those people selling low-cost astronomical telescopes via mail-order catalogues and non-specialist stores. In the early 1990s the quality was appalling and disappointment would have been almost guaranteed - but times have changed, and having surveyed some the best and worst of today's inexpensive mail-order catalogue and main-street astronomical telescopes Patrick has admitted to being astonished by how good some of them are. Today, the best are now excellent value and useful instruments. The first part of this book provides reports on some available models along with detailed and essential hints and tips about what to look for when buying. The second part describes how best to use the telescope, which celestial objects to observe (with full-page star charts to help find them), what you can expect to see, and how to take and even computer-enhance astronomical photographs.