Abstract
There are plenty of interesting sights on the Moon, but to explore them properly requires optical assistance—from a pair of binoculars, a camera … and ultimately from a telescope. There’s a bewildering variety of astronomical equipment on the market—and an equally bewildering variety of opinions as to their merits. So what should you buy? There’s no single correct answer to that question, because different people have different requirements. It’s a common mistake to jump straight to a consideration of the options, before properly understanding what the question was in the first place. That’s essentially what this chapter is all about.
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May, A. (2017). Essential Equipment. In: The Telescopic Tourist's Guide to the Moon. The Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60741-2_2
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