SuperCooper Telescope Help:
This website will teach you the things you need to know to make good telescope selections. You can avoid awful telescopes with optical flaws, inappropriate
magnifications and rubbish mountings. I will give you the information you need to select the right equipment,
without compromise, and all at a price you can afford!
Me with the first telescope I ever used. A drawtube telescope - HOC 30x30
I saw the Moon at the age of five 1968
"My first look though a telescope was at the age of five.
I have spent 55+ years looking through telescopes at the night sky.
Allow me to share my telescope knowledge with you!"
The telescope advice will never be out of date.
Last updated: June 2026
The astronomical season is: SPRING (Mar21 - Jun21)
Telescope information contained in this website is good the world over.
Prices and services given are examples from the United Kingdom.
SuperCooper currently lives in Yorkshire
in the English north, UK, at 53.4° N.
Astronomical objects described and suggested are all visible at
temperate northern hemisphere latitudes, including:
Europe - North America - Asia - Far East
Me with the 30" Dobsonian telescope at the AAC in 1986. I helped to construct this telescope. It had an 80mm finder!
In later years the mirror was remounted with steel tube A frame on a better mounting too.
Me and my 90mm f13.9 Maksutov
Orion Mak90
Bought 2018 from eBay for £35
Me and my Phenix 127mm f10.0
achromatic refractor.
Bought off FaceBook Marketplace for £90
If you need help with any aspect of choosing or using a telescope for use in night-time astronomy, then look no further than these non-profit, unsponsored and free web pages.
Over the last fifty plus years I've owned, used, compared, tested and traded a huge number of fantastic telescopes, and some not-so-fantastic telescopes too!
I have traded telescopes as a hobby for a number of years, and I have handled and used over 450 telescopes and nearly 50 pairs of binoculars on the night sky. I'm ideally placed to tell you which are good and which are to be avoided.
Read the details on the telescopes on this page - I will show you how these excellent, 'bargain' telescopes, could be yours - Which to buy and which to avoid!
Whatever your telescope query, you will find your answer.
I'm not here trying to make money off you, in fact,
I'll probably save you quite a bit!
YOU NEED THIS INFORMATION BEFORE YOU BUY ANY TELESCOPE!
There are too many sites out there that offer to give you information at a price. Or they are sponsored to lie to you about how good an awful scope is!
SuperCooper Telescope Help information is FREE and you can get a great telescope by taking advice from this website. There is no investment required, other than your time.
This website was 'born' in 2016. I review and update very regularly.
Most of the pictures in this site can be clicked to enlarge.
Try it out: Click the image in the red box below.
Me and my 305mm f5
Meade 'LightBridge 305'
Truss-tube Newtonian.
Bought off eBay for £150
Me and my recommended 150mm f5
SkyWatcher 150P
Bought off eBay for £75
Me and my 100mm f9
SkyWatcher 100ED-PRO
Bought from CashConverter for £89
Note:
I appear in many of the pictures. You may think I'm very vain. Actually, it's for scale. It may help
you to see how large a telescope is when seen with an average height person in the picture. I'm 178cm tall / 5' 10". Also, these pics represent a certain proof of my telescope use
experiences.
If you want 'easy answers', for instance if you are buying a telescope as a present for someone else, please click this link: QUICK REFERENCE.
ENJOY THE GUIDE PAGE LINKS at top:
They're FREE - But, the information is priceless!
Me and my 93mm f10.8
Soligor Achromatic Refractor
Bought 2020 from Local Facebook Marketplace for £85
The 'Woe is Me!' sections give you some idea of the problems I have encountered along the way. Things that I have learned first-hand during my astro-life. Hopefully, this
will save you making the same errors. Have a great telescopic exploration!
They are few: because I'm a quick learner and realised that I didn't know better than the experts pretty quickly!