Brands
What each maker is good at, and what choosing it closes off
Nearly every maker here is convincing in one part of the range and unremarkable across the rest — a house that grinds good mirrors may fit the focuser that undoes them. These pages say which part, what it costs to stay inside one maker’s fittings and controller software, and which apparently separate brands turn out to be the same factory under different labels.
- Omegon The house range that covers every shelf 23 products
- Bresser From a child’s first tube to a GoTo equatorial 22 products
- Celestron Computerised pointing, and the accessories around it 15 products
- SVBONY Inexpensive optics with the figures printed 10 products
- Astromania Accessories cut to the standard fittings 9 products
- Sky-Watcher Tracking mounts and the tubes that suit them 7 products
- Explore Scientific Parts for a mount that already exists 7 products
- Seben Entry-level optics, plainly described 4 products
- SOLOMARK Bundles rather than single parts 4 products
- National Geographic A licensed badge on beginner instruments 3 products
- EBTOOLS Machined adapters and one eyepiece camera 3 products
- Vixen A name that is also a standard 3 products
- Wisyurt Finders and the bar that carries them 2 products
- Kosmos A telescope and a chart, both sold as books 2 products
- Gosky Daytime optics pointed at the sky 2 products
- K&F CONCEPT Camera filters, and one monocular 2 products
- DÖRR A reflector and a photo adapter 2 products
- Skyoptikst A Newtonian and a reducer-corrector 2 products
- Baader Planetarium Two products at the top of their shelves 2 products
- POFET Two eyepiece-end parts 2 products
- ASToptics Heater strips and threaded adapters 2 products
- ECSiNG Double-male thread couplings 2 products
- VBESTLIFE A reducer and a T2 ring 2 products