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.

Did you get a telescope for Christmas but you aren’t quite sure how to use it? FREE event open to the public. It’s a common complaint among first-time telescope owners: “I’ve got this new ...

The Prairie Astronomy Club will offer its annual free session: “How to Use Your Telescope” at Hyde Observatory, Tuesday evening January 28th at 7:30 p.m.

In time he developed a new telescope design and a new approach to telescope making. Compared to the typical amateur telescope of the time, what came to be known as the "Dobsonian" telescopes were ...