🚀 go-pugleaf

I would like some recommendations on a telescope.
This will be for view use instead of astronomy.
Our house is about 2 miles from the ocean.

There is a store in town that sells nothing but
telescopes.  The one they recommend is the Parks
Pioneer.  This is a multi-coated 60mm lens system
with a zoom range of 15X-60X.  The price is $349
which is within our range.  We looked through it
and it seems pretty sharp, much better than the
under $200 ones.  A friend has also suggested
Celestron ?? 90.  Does anyone has experience with
these scopes?

Since we know nothing about telescopes, I would
appreciate any information on selecting, pricing
and maintaining telescopes.

We also need to buy a tripot.  We have a light-weight
portable one for our camera which is probably not
sturdy enough.  The ones in the store is around $100.

Please reply by e-mail.  I am not a regular of this
news group.

Thanks in advance for your help,
Alice Wang
wang@optigfx.com