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[Music] A feature readers love about our book, The Backyard Astronomer's Guide, is our detailed recommendations of brands and models of telescopes.
We also provide lots of general guidelines ones buyers often fail to consider. For a start, we ask, "Are you ready to buy a telescope?" To get the most out of any telescope, it's helpful to be familiar with what's up in the sky and what objects are going to look like in the eyepiece. We provide many illustrations.
We emphasize choosing a telescope suitable for the site where it will be used most often. Portability is paramount, and we suggest forgetting about photography, at least at first. While people fret over buying a telescope of poor quality, we find just as many newcomers lose interest for buying too much telescope, one so complex it rarely gets used.
Four chapters provide 100 pages of advice on choosing and using telescopes and accessories such as eyepieces and filters. For many readers, these chapters alone are worth the price of admission.