What Brand Telescope is Good?
In the beginner telescope market, this question has become clouded in recent years. Meade and Celestron are two major manufacturers of telescopes; in years gone by all the telescopes offered by these companies were good to excellent. That has changed today, unfortunately the name Meade or Celestron on a telescope no longer guarantees that the scope is a good one. Meade and Celestron have made a much bigger presence in the “consumer” telescope market in the past few years. In the 1970’s, if you owned a Celestron telescope, you owned a good telescope (period). Back then, all of their telescopes (about 4 models) were American made. Today, both Meade and Celestron have entered into the low end telescope market, and both companies tend to “distance” themselves from admitting this fact. Both Meade and Celestron still make some outstanding products; the problem is, the good ones are found less and less frequently in consumer outlets. Meade has been marketing telescopes under the “Saturn” bran
