A telescope for sale today, is pretty much the same as the ones sold a hundred years ago. Though there are marked differences, the technology pretty much stayed the same. However, in the last few years, computerized GoTo telescopes have become very popular over conventional reflector telescopes. Discover more in this article.
Reflector telescopes also known as a Newtonian reflector after Isaac Newton who invented it, is a telescope that operates with a mirror at one end of the telescope, to collect light, and bring it further up the telescope, where a secondary mirror moves the light through optics, to your eye.

A reflector telescope has good performance, and for its price, it is usually better than a refractor telescope, when compared with price and performance. A reflector telescope however, is manual. Even with a motor, it requires you to know where to point it.
Having a GoTo computerized telescope combats this problem. A GoTo telescope, once set up correctly, will find any object in the night sky.
Meade, Celestron and Orion telescopes produce a GoTo telescope, and come with a controller that allows you to simply enter the code for what you want to see, and the telescope zooms through the sky doing […]

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