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What is the best design of telescope? Ask that question of a dozen astronomers and you will get twenty answers — all of them correct! That is because the answer depends on so many factors: what type of objects you wish to observe, whether or not you wish to obtain photographs or charge-coupled device (CCD) images, what your observing site is like, whether you use the telescope on every clear night or just occasionally, whether the telescope is permanently mounted in a dome or has to be brought out of storage when you want to observe, and by no means least, on how much you can afford to spend. Without this last constraint, all amateur astronomers would probably have a Hubble space telescope or a Keck telescope of their own.
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Kitchin, C., Forrest, R.W. (1998). Your Telescope and How to get the Best Out of It. In: Seeing Stars. Practical Astronomy. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0621-0_2
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