Most gear advice online is a list of products with the word "best" in front of it. These guides tell you what a thing does, what it does badly, and who should not buy it. We name the catch on every recommendation, because the catch is the part that decides whether you keep using it.
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The under $300 question, answered without the marketing.
Read the guide →What they really are, which ones exist right now, and who should skip them.
Read the guide →The best first purchase in astronomy, and it is not a telescope.
Read the guide →Seventeen dollars to a hundred and twenty, none of it junk.
Read the guide →December 13 to 14, no moon, up to 120 an hour. You need no equipment at all.
Read the guide →Buy the Celestron Cometron 7x50 binoculars for about $45. If you already know you are serious, buy the Sky-Watcher Heritage 130P for about $305. If you want photographs rather than eyepiece views, buy the ZWO Seestar S30 Pro for about $699. Everything else on this page is detail.