Portable Compact Astronomy Telescope

This Telescope from Velleora Home Decor is built compact enough to be carried out to a dark field or a garden in one trip, which matters more for actual use than aperture does.

The best telescope is the one that gets used. A large instrument that takes twenty minutes to set up gets brought out twice a year; a portable one goes out whenever the sky clears, which is how anyone actually learns the night sky.

Two configurations are offered, with a tripod and eyepieces included. It shows the moon's craters clearly, the phases of Venus, Jupiter's moons and Saturn's rings under good conditions. Set realistic expectations: deep-sky objects appear as faint grey smudges rather than the colour images seen in photographs. Let it cool to outside temperature before observing, and never point it at the sun - doing so causes instant, permanent blindness.

• Compact enough to actually get used
• Tripod and eyepieces included
• Shows lunar craters and Jupiter's moons
• Two configuration options
• Let it cool to outside temperature first
• NEVER point it at the sun