Sky-Watcher 12" Collapsible Dobsonian Telescope

dobsonian telescopes are the perfect tool to visually explore the night sky great for someone getting started but large enough that you'll not easily outgrow it the big advantage is that they are manual simple and easy to use you can get a real telescope for a reasonable price with a telescope the most important thing is the aperture that is the size of the mirror the larger the mirror the more light you capture so the more detail you see in an object magnification is not so important as this is just based on the eyepiece you're using magnifying just makes the image bigger not better the dobsonian provides you with a maximum aperture for your dollar with the money going into the optics rather than a fancy mount that you may not really need but the telescope is all manual there is nothing automatically finding objects and tracking them for you you are the computer and the motor driving i