Our good friends and associates from the San Francisco Sidewalk Astronomers have published an excellent guide to buying telescopes, in the spirit of the season. I'll be adding a link from the Old Town Astronomers site, meanwhile you can enjoy the article here: http://sfsidewalkastronomers.org/telescopes/buying/ Best regards, Mojo -- Morris Jones Monrovia, CA http://www.whiteoaks.com Old Town Astronomers: http://www.otastro.org