The big day’s here: Your first telescope has arrived. You’ve done your research and decided on an 8-inch Dobsonian-mounted reflector, or perhaps a 4-inch refractor, or another model that had a great ...

I have been doing astrophotography for 35 years. I started with film, then moved to film plus computers, and now I’m doing pure digital with CCD cameras. I’ve used telescopes of every type and size: ...