My first telescope was a 2.5-inch Gilbert reflector my parents bought for me in about 1964. It wasn't easy to use, but I remember looking at the moon, Mars and Saturn with it.

Hardly! In a past column (April 2011), I sang the praises of my first astronomical telescope, Edmund Scientific’s Space Conqueror, a 3-inch f/10 reflector.

Celestron Inspire 100AZ telescope review: price and release date The Celestron Inspire 100AZ originally went on sale in 2017 and costs in the region of $360 / £249 / AU$600. It’s the biggest ...

A telescope that’s suitable for those wanting to take their first steps into astronomy but are unsure of where to start, this reflector serves as a virtual guide to the night sky.

Although the James Webb telescope doesn’t look like traditional tube-shaped models, it is still considered a reflecting telescope.

Within sixty years, Isaac Newton had built his own new and improved reflecting telescope with a curved mirror, coated with a fine layer of reflective silver metal, instead of lenses.

Telescopes come in many different flavors of optical design, or how the telescope collects and directs light. There are reflector telescopes, refractors, Schmidt-Cassegrains and more.

The night sky of Aspen is a wonderland for stargazers, dark and transparent enough for the naked eye to discern ...

The reflecting telescope, first built by Isaac Newton, used a large mirror instead of a lens to collect and focus light. Mirrors can be built much larger than lenses, which means reflecting ...