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36: Stargazing with Team Supermassive

The Supermassive Podcast

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What Type of Telescope Is Better for Stargazing?

It's horses for courses essentially and it depends on your setup where you live in a whole manner of things. Refractors are actually also for amateur telescopes generally better when you've got a smaller aperture, so a smaller diameter of the main lens or mirror. Catatoelectric telescopes like TUR-Izi use a lens to improve the reflection that you get from the mirror in a telescope. But I would say probably it's budget dependent on what you want to look at.

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