Skywatcher Mercury 707 Refractor Telescope

hello my name's roy and welcome to another episode of the astronomy network and this one we'll be talking about choosing your very first telescope so in our first episode a lot of the products mentioned there were aimed at professionals and astrophotographers so we thought we would make a video for the beginners there are lots of videos on youtube about choosing your first telescope and what to buy so i thought i would give my take on it and what i thought would be a good choice for a beginner now i'm going to assume that anyone watching this video knows absolutely nothing about telescopes so i'm going to go over all the basics from what the telescope is how it works the difference between a reflector and a refractor the difference between an altazimuth mount versus an equatorial mount and go over all the accessories and what to look for when buying your first scope so before we look at