Buying your first telescope?

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For those confident enough to sift through the info and specifications, we've listed our fifteen best-selling telescopes for beginners (of all ages) below. If you're looking for a telescope for a child under ten, we'd particularly recommend the Celestron First Scope or the Sky-Watcher Heritage 76 or Heritage 130. These table-top scopes are dead simple to use as you just point them physically at what you want to see, so anyone can manage it. Even these inexpensive models will show you the rings of Saturn, the Moon's craters and the moons around Jupiter!

For older children and adults, you'll want to look at the telescopes with tripods - it makes using them much easier for taller people! For an inexpensive start, look at our exclusive Vixen Space-Eye 70 - this award-winning telescope offers fantastic optics for the money. Sky-Watcher's EvoStar and Explorer are brilliant start instruments too - with mechanical mounts that track the stars as you simply turn a wheel! Their increased light-gathering will bring Nebulae and Galaxies into view.

The telescopes near the foot of the page offer the ultimate simplicity - they have a 'GO-TO' controller that allows you to select the object you wish to see from a menu (of up to 40,000 objects!) - then they electronically move to view it and track it effortlessly across the sky!