{"id":3910,"date":"2017-09-01T13:20:21","date_gmt":"2017-09-01T18:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/?p=3910"},"modified":"2017-09-15T13:32:51","modified_gmt":"2017-09-15T18:32:51","slug":"my-beginners-telescope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2017\/09\/01\/my-beginners-telescope\/","title":{"rendered":"My Beginner&#8217;s Telescope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The recent eclipse reignited my interest in stargazing. After looking through a number of <a href=\"http:\/\/thewirecutter.com\/reviews\/best-telescopes-for-beginners\/\">online recommendations<\/a>, I settled on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.astronomerswithoutborders.org\/store\/index.php?main_page=product_info&#038;cPath=0&#038;products_id=4&#038;zenid=9017k3arh63gt299esee6ooco3\">AWB One Sky<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The 5-inch f\/5 reflector is a nice balance between features and price for a beginner. The telescope even collapses down into a very portable package for bringing to the local dark part for viewing the stars. <\/p>\n<p>I particularly like that half of the $199 price goes to funding <a href=\"http:\/\/astronomerswithoutborders.org\/\">Astronomers Without Borders<\/a> worldwide education programs.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-3910 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2017\/09\/01\/my-beginners-telescope\/21231005_10212321449183902_7196379860479032761_n\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/21231005_10212321449183902_7196379860479032761_n-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/21231005_10212321449183902_7196379860479032761_n-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/21231005_10212321449183902_7196379860479032761_n-450x450.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/21231005_10212321449183902_7196379860479032761_n-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/21231005_10212321449183902_7196379860479032761_n.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 85vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2017\/09\/01\/my-beginners-telescope\/21231049_10212321448823893_6533378661072802221_n\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/21231049_10212321448823893_6533378661072802221_n-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2017\/09\/01\/my-beginners-telescope\/21231009_10212321449143901_9176796335145898627_n\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/21231009_10212321449143901_9176796335145898627_n-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recent eclipse reignited my interest in stargazing. After looking through a number of online recommendations, I settled on the AWB One Sky. The 5-inch f\/5 reflector is a nice balance between features and price for a beginner. The telescope even collapses down into a very portable package for bringing to the local dark part &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2017\/09\/01\/my-beginners-telescope\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;My Beginner&#8217;s Telescope&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[541,191,540],"class_list":["post-3910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-general","tag-astronomy","tag-science","tag-telescope","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3910"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3919,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3910\/revisions\/3919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}