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 Sold With An Inferior Focuser

First thing you see when looking at the focuser, you will find that most department store telescopes come with cheap plastic focusers. This may not seem important at first, but over time those cheap plastic parts will began to wear out, slip, and eventually stop working. Once it cracks or starts to slip, you may find replacing the focuser would be more expensive than the telescope is worth.

The second issue with most department store telescopes is the size of the focuser, most are sold with a 0.965" focuser. This size focuser only gives you a small view of the sky, which makes trying to find sky objects when looking through the telescope very difficult. Using one of the smaller lenses will make finding objects through the telescope much easier, but you will still only see a small patch of sky.

The focuser featured on most kid's department store telescopes is usually listed on the fine print of the product description either the side or back of the box. The 0.965" focuser is quickly becoming obsolete, so finding accessories will increasingly become difficult or impossible. This makes ever being able to upgrade that department store telescope with new lenses very hard.

After a little research, you will find that the best telescopes today usually come with either a 1.25" or maybe even a 2" focuser included with them. With the more common size focuser, buying lenses and accessories will be easier. You will also find with the larger size focuser will give you a wider field of view when looking through the telescope.

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