Tools to Aid Telescope Viewing

Video Transcript

"When you're ready to go outside and use our telescope, there are couple of things you should have in order to make your night viewing a better experience. One, is to find a light that is a red light. Now, why would you want to use a red light? Well, you'd want to use a red light because white light destroys your night vision. It takes about five minutes for your night vision to build up. Now, this particular light has both the white, if you flip it one way, and the red. So, it's very handy. So, when you're at night and you're out by your telescope, use the red light. You can simply get a flashlight and use red fingernail polish and point over the lens and that works fine as well. The other thing that you should take with you, and this is really a key thing for astronomy, a good binocular. These are 750's, they're inexpensive binoculars, good way to get started. You have the ability to see all kinds of incredible things with binoculars. When you use binoculars make sure that you tuck your arms underneath to steady them and then move back. You may want to lean against a tree. But, by taking even the small binocular that we have here and scanning the night sky in the summer, up through the Milky Way, you'll see some incredibly galaxies and nebulae and just star clusters that'll blow your mind."