It's also a budget device, with its lightweight design and plasticky build quality that seriously ... you reaching for your credit card. A refractor telescope on a fold-up tripod that ships ...

Well, any of us who has ever looked through a telescope could say the same, for the two principal types in use today were developed by giants: the refractor by Galileo and the reflector by Newton.

Here’s how it works. The Celestron AstroMaster 70AZ refractor telescope is, like all telescopes, a delicate balance of features. Equipped with a small 2.7”/70 mm aperture but also with a ...