Buying your First Time Telescope

By Stars & Astronomy On September 9th, 2010

When looking up at the sky, there comes a time when our thirst to see the stars in there full splendour rather then little dots becomes more than a desire. With hundreds of millions of objects in the sky to see, a planet telescope can really bring the universe to life. Your first experience in buying your first astronomical telescope is likely to determine your future with seeing space. I say this as there is much hype from the cheap telescope manufacturers telling you that you will see millions of miles away. There is loads of hype and I hope this article here about buying your first astronomical telescope will help you have a great lifelong interest and participation with astronomy and using your first telescope.

Two points that you must bear in mind before buying your first astronomical telescope:

1. Remember the pictures on the planet telescopes box are taken by a professional astro-photographer with very expensive equipment.

2. When viewing object in space, they will be in various shades of black and white. This happens with all planet telescopes. The colour is only seen in long exposure photography of the object.

Think of the planet telescope box for your first astronomical telescope as the pictures from fast food restaurants. The picture looks amazing in the picture, but the result is less than imagined. This can deter people thinking that planet telescopes are not what they make out and that they should decide not to buy a first astronomical telescope. This is not the case, after all we still love the fast food. Your first astronomical telescope will still bring you amazing sights which are breathtaking.

One thing to keep in mind is the price and quality factor. In the last part I gave you an example of a fast food chain and the pictures. Now if you purchase your first astronomical telescope for $100 or less, than realize that the quality of your first astronomical telescope will not satisfy your desire to see the universe.

Those first astronomical telescopes selling for less than $100 are great for looking at the moon, but will prove no use for any deep space viewing. The key to having the best first astronomical telescope is to make sure your first astronomical telescope has a strong mount, otherwise the image will shake everywhere, and you will not see much.

The best option is to go for a $200+ planet telescope for your first astronomical telescope. The price determines quality with planet telescopes whether it is your first time planet telescope or you are a seasoned planet telescope user. And the most important parts that need quality is the planet telescope mount, planet telescope lens, and planet telescope mirror.

The main items to look at when buying a planet telescope are the two numbers that will tell you how well it is expected to work. For a good first astronomical telescope, a listing of 20X50 is about average. This means the magnification will equal 20 times what you see with your eyes and the 50 is the width of the length, which is what determines how much light is gathered. The more light the better the image will be visible in the dark and for astronomy, all star gazing is typically done after dark.

A lot of the cheap planet telescopes try to sell you on fancy gadgets. They look good to have on your new first astronomical telescope, but the truth is that these kind of features will be of no use. Consider on a $100 first astronomical telescope that comes with loads of fancy gadgets, most of the money is going on those features. All you need to get started in astronomy with a first astronomical telescope is to make sure more of your money goes on the planet telescope mirror, planet telescope mount, and planet telescope lenses.

Following the above advice will result in you getting the best first astronomical telescope for your home needs. And you will know when you have purchase a good first time planet telescope when you stay with looking at the stars for years to come.

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NASA selects investigations for first mission to encounter the Sun

By Stars & Astronomy On September 5th, 2010

The Solar Probe Plus will plunge directly into the Sun’s atmosphere to learn why it’s so much hotter than our star’s visible surface and what propels the solar wind. View full post on Astronomy.com – News

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Kepler’s First Peek – Natalie Batalha (SETI Talks)

By Stars & Astronomy On August 25th, 2010

Link to SETI Archive: seti.org Kepler’s First Peek

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Hubble Dazzling First Light Images in HD

By Stars & Astronomy On August 19th, 2010

Spectacular new images from distant space that you must see to believe. The revolutionary Hubble Space Telescope will continue to open our eyes to the universe.

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Neptune Finally Makes First Orbit Around the Sun Since Discovery In 1846

By Stars & Astronomy On August 18th, 2010

On Aug. 20, Neptune will be in opposition, completing its first trip around the sun since its discovery in 1846. Seasoned skywatchers may be able to see Neptune during opposition as it completes its first orbit since its discovery. View full post on SPACE.com

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First Images From Refreshed Hubble Telescope

By Stars & Astronomy On August 17th, 2010

These are the first images from the Hubble Space Telescope after a billion-dollar repair that included installing new cameras and replacing broken parts.(Sept. 9)

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Father of SETI Honored 50 Years After First Search for Alien Life

By Stars & Astronomy On August 16th, 2010

Frank Drake, the father of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, was honored Saturday to celebrate the 50th anniversary of his Project Ozma, the first modern experiment to look for intelligent aliens. View full post on SPACE.com

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Discovery of first Trojan asteroid in a stable zone near Neptune

By Stars & Astronomy On August 16th, 2010

Trojans share their planet’s orbit and help astronomers understand how the planets formed and how the solar system evolved. View full post on Astronomy.com – News

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Hubble Finds First Organic Molecule on an Exoplanet

By Stars & Astronomy On August 6th, 2010

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has made the first detection ever of an organic molecule in the atmosphere of a Jupiter-sized planet orbiting another star. This breakthrough is an important step in eventually identifying signs of life on a planet outside our solar system. Video credit: NASA, ESA, and M. Estacion (STScI)

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The First Mind Influenced Everything That Came After

By Stars & Astronomy On August 6th, 2010

When the “big bang” occurred, at that time there was a “Mind,” the Creator’s Mind. The material that drifted off after the big bang was made up of subatomic particles. This material acted in exactly the same manner as clouds, but it was actually a thinking mass of subatomic particles, the first Mind.


Can your imagine being the first one on a world where no one had ever been before? This Mind would not have known anything other than feeling good and being happy and joyous.


This Mind, feeling all of this intellectually, would then have influenced everything that came after this with these feelings of freedom, curiosity, joy, peace, happiness, etc. These feelings would be embedded in all the planets, stars, and even the nebulae that are still forming, especially the nebulae because they have never seen anything other than this pure Mind.


They would have formed into pure, clear, uncluttered, bodies until the process of evolution started. The very process of evolution itself would cause the vibration to be lowered. This is a scientific happening because the lowering of the vibration causes a cluttering of the mind which in turn causes the lowering of the vibration. All of us from evolutionary worlds will always face this battle. There is no way to overcome it as long as evolution continues, except through education as to the cause of it all.


The excitement of the explosion, the sheer awe and wonder of this Mind, this first “thinking” being, with a body of energy for a form, was what caused the creation of everything and the tiny little central core that caused it all is still there. This is very difficult for us on the earth plane to grasp.


An analogy here might be to compare the tiny atom that is still at the center of all creation to the grain of sand that’s still in the center of the pearl as the pearl formed around it.


The first Mind was developed in the original cocoon of vacuum by the beginning vibrations and was given birth during the explosion. This Mind expanded and set the pattern for all to come afterwards; all that has taken place since then originated in this Mind. These particles were once the “complete Mind” of the Creator that was present in the black hole. At the time of the nuclear explosion this Mind was shattered into individual particles. You and I and everyone were part of one of these particles.


The esoteric meaning of a black hole is simply the inner, esoteric part of anything, the part that you can’t see, the thought-form. When we go to the inner planes at the end of a lifetime, esoterically speaking we have gone into a black hole, a mini-black hole. Planets do the same thing; the Creator did the same thing. He is in His inner planes; has never left His inner planes, is perhaps a better way of saying it.


Never having left the inner planes and gone out into the universe that was expanding away from Him because of the explosion, He has no way of learning, or growing or expressing except through what went off of Him at the time of the explosion. There are little fine filaments connected to everything (even us) that exploded off of that mini-black hole, the Creator God, the central core of powerful churning energy. These tiny filaments of thread, the Creator’s thoughts, go to every part of the Creator God’s universe; umbilical cords, if you will, still connected to the planets. The same as your thoughts can travel anywhere, the thoughts of this first Mind are constantly revolving, not only around the core but are being solidified into the forming of matter bodies, the planets and stars. Remember, all were once the same body of nothingness that produced the original droplet of condensed atmosphere that started the whole pattern of everlasting life.


The Mind of the Creator is made up of scientific reactions to exoteric events, instinctual behavior reactions that can’t be changed due to the laws of scientific reactions.


The Creator’s development was of scientific reactions. His birth is another story. The same is true of humans. Our development in the womb is a scientific chain of events that can only be altered by the most drastic of events, among which is chemical poisoning. When the Creator was developing there was no such thing as chemicals to poison any part of His development. Therefore, He is the most pure development of anything that could ever be possible.


When He was born the Mind came into being as a thinking entity. This Mind was not poisoned or cluttered because there was nothing to poison or clutter it. Everything was absolutely pure and clean. Therefore, this Mind followed absolute perfection as far as reaction to scientific circumstances. It is still so.


The human mind, on the other hand, is subject to poison and clutter from the first moments of birth on. This is due to evolution. Creation will always be pure, evolution will always be impure. Even though evolution is a scientific reaction to circumstances also, it is subject to influence. Pure creation is not subject to influence by others. Remember this at all times.


This Mind of the Creator is capable of feelings, but only of clear, clean, uncluttered, non-poisonous feelings. These are the feelings that high vibrations will bring. The higher and finer the vibration of our bodies, the cleaner and clearer are our feelings. It is as simple as that. When the vibration is low the disharmony results in grating, grinding vibrations that cause pain in the mind. The first Mind had no way of experiencing these low vibrations. They simply weren’t there. The original vibration was high and fine and this caused the first Mind to feel joy at being, curiosity about who He was and where He was and what exactly He was supposed to do now.


There is, truly, one central, divine nuclear energy God with a mind so powerful that none can ever hope to understand it, much less have direct contact with it. There is no comparison to anything on any planet that can give you an idea of the power and glory of this minuscule starting point of everything. Its size comes about because of the concept of compressed time and the expansion of the universe of all who leave this central core and move out away from it, growing and expanding in the freedom of vast endlessness.

This article was excerpted from The TimeLine of Eternity by Norma Hickox and can be ordered at Norma is a musician. She plays & teaches 6 instruments & composes music. She has also done painting, writing, dance and theater.

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