A Beginners Guide to Buying a Telescope

Hint: Not This

My first telescope was, to be perfectly honest, an absolute piece of garbage. It was a Tasco that I bought from a clearance rack at Kay-Bee Toy Store. It was a strange purplish color, made entirely of plastic, and stood about 4 feet (1.22 meters) high with the tripod fully extended. It was only a telescope in the sense that it made small blurry things into large blurry things when you looked through it. It was an utter…