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Originally Posted by snowqueen  telescopes advertise their magnification because people seem to think this is most important, but of course optical use of high magnification is not possible |
This is very true & first time buyers can be taken in by this as I once was, especially when they show colour photos on the ad's and packaging as if viewed through the telescope you are buying.
You often see cheap binoculars & telescopes advertised in news papers etc with misleading captions like "see 50 miles" and such like: avoid these. when you think about it, if you watch the sun set you are technically seeing about 93,000000 miles with the naked eye?