![]() ![]() However, their website is extremely outdated and hard to navigate, and thus, ordering from them is hardly what we’d call a convenient experience. C7 inspects telescopes they sell and issues a certificate of quality, offers consignment for used telescopes, and offers a variety of products and services that you simply can’t get at many other vendors. Company Seven has a showroom at their Maryland store, which is fantastic to visit. However, a little more personal interaction might be required to secure an order, and their selection of telescopes, particularly those oriented towards newcomers, is a little smaller than some other vendors.Ĭompany Seven is another retail store that sells telescopes with more of an emphasis on quality and higher-end items. Skies Unlimited is a great telescope shop with quality service. They also have a showroom at their telescope store on Long Island and offer a variety of repair and consignment services as well as used telescopes. However, their customer service with new products is very good, as is their shipping time and overall service.ĬCTS’ website is confusing to navigate and they may seem less-than-trustworthy, but their customer service is, despite appearances, quite good as is their shipping. Orion will also refuse to help you with a telescope bought elsewhere, even if it is their own product, and they do not provide spare parts. Orion offers some telescopes and binoculars that aren’t their own products, but we’d probably recommend buying those from somewhere else with better pricing. ![]() They also have an in-person showroom at their location in Arkansas.Īs with Explore Scientific, if you’re looking to buy an Orion product, you should probably order it directly from Orion themselves. Their customer service and shipping are fantastic, and if you’re looking to buy an Explore Scientific brand’s product, there’s really no reason not to order it straight from them. Their products are mostly astrophotography-related and they offer a wide variety of quality imported brands like PrimaLuceLab, Orion Optics UK, Borg, Officina Stellare, Astronomik, and Takahashi.Įxplore Scientific sells its own products directly as well as items from Bresser. ![]() Woodland Hills Camera & Telescope is a great store for all sorts of astronomy and photography needs. Astronomics also has a showroom at their location in Oklahoma. They are also the sponsors of the Cloudy Nights astronomy forum, which is free to access. Astronomics offers fantastic customer service, fast shipping, and a fair number of telescopes and accessories that can be harder to find at other vendors. If you’re interested in astrophotography, Agena sells a wide variety of astrograph telescopes as well as hundreds, if not thousands, of adapters, covers, and other devices, and even 3D-printed items from companies like Astrodymium, Buckeyestargazer, and Machinza AstroProducts. Unlike High Point, AgenaAstro doesn’t offer subjective opinions about compatibility with your specific telescope, optical performance or comparison between products.Īstronomics is a smaller telescope dealer, but one focused heavily on customer service, particularly with higher-end products. Agena’s site is particularly geared towards shopping for accessories and parts for your telescope, though they do have a pretty respectable range of telescopes too (if not as extensive as High Point). High Point’s shipping is extremely fast, and free or reasonably priced.Īgena Astro is another of our favorite vendors. High Point also clearly indicates when products are out of stock and when they are expected to ship, does not drop ship and has a used equipment department where you can sell or trade in your astronomy gear as well as get discounts on pre-owned items – and with pricing that’s pretty competitive with the used market on sites like Cloudy Nights or AstroMart. They have more than a dozen tech specialists available and will make specific comparisons between products for you. ![]() In addition to offering Free Lifetime Tech Support all of High Point’s tech and customer support specialists are non-commissioned – they are not paid to sell you things and will give you an unbiased opinion of the products they sell. High Point Scientific has one of the largest selections of telescopes and telescope accessories of any vendor in the United States, including some of our favorites like Apertura and Zhumell Dobsonians. ![]()
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