Why it made the cut: This mount offers a great balance of portability and maneuverability while also being great at ...

Such mountings are, in turn, attached to a wobbly tripod. Consider this: A telescope can have the finest optics in the world, yet can be rendered totally useless if the mount is so poor that the ...

You get a full-height tripod ... This refractor telescope is perfect for beginners hoping to look at the moon and nearby planets. It features an alt-azimuth mount, which makes it a bit cheaper ...

The telescope comes with a tripod, saving you from purchasing one ... Once you select what to look at, the motorized Alt-Az mount navigates for you. The telescope then tracks that object or ...

A refractor telescope on a fold-up tripod that ships with a travel bag ... a patch of sky just beyond your target – and allow the mount to droop into place. That's frustrating.

Unistellar, a French company, exclusively makes smart telescopes and has been selling them since 2020. The Odyssey Pro and ...

So aligning it to a Polaris puts the mount’s bearings parallel ... down to the weight of both the telescope itself and the equatorial amount, as well as the tripod and the counterweight.