When choosing a telescope, it’s easy to focus solely on the optics and forget about one of the most critical components: the ...

Like a lot of budget telescopes, the Finder TW2 over-promises ... Its lack of an equatorial mount or motorized alt-azimuth mount means neither object can be tracked, so they quickly disappear ...

It’s a pretty novel device, and one that sparked real excitement in someone who had only used one telescope before. More ...

The mount, which employs a swivel base and a cradle assembly to hold the telescope tube, has a simple design and is easy to construct (if you choose to build one yourself).