Astronomical equipment for home by SIGETA

Telescopes with lenticular objectives - refractors - are the most universal. An optical refractor tube on a high-quality azimuthal or equatorial mount, with a properly selected set of eyepieces, is suitable for observing star clusters and for studying planetary disks. Refractors with additional accessories for ground-based observations are most often preferred by amateurs when choosing their first telescope

Reflectors collect light and focus it into the optical path by means of mirrors. As long as the large-aperture reflector is mounted on a motorized equatorial mount compensating for the Earth's rotation, the telescope will produce a high-quality and bright image suitable for photography

Catadioptric telescopes are characterized by high-quality optics and relatively small size. Such telescopes are used not only for observations of space objects, but also for ground observations. The peculiarity of catadioptric telescopes is a correctly inverted vertical image.