Criticism
Among amateur astronomers, Tasco telescopes have a variable reputation. As Tasco has relations with Celestron, a company generally trusted by amateur astronomers for good-quality instruments, many Tasco telescopes are similar or identical to Celestron telescopes. However, most Tasco telescopes are usually purchased from a department store, a source that most amateurs find unsuitable for purchasing telescopes. Many of its telescopes, especially the 30 - 50mm refractor variety, are sold with extra features such as an included microscope kit, but the telescope itself is often sold on a tabletop mount or is handheld and can be worth as little as $10 USD. Like most department store refractors, the objective lenses often are non-achromatic and the eyepieces are sold in 0.965 inch-size barrels as Huygens (H), regarded as some of the worst by amateur astronomers. Tasco and Bushnell telescopes are often avoided by amateurs because they are new to the astronomical community, and of their emphasis on magnification, which is regarded as unimportant by most amateur astronomers.
Read more about this topic: Tasco
Famous quotes containing the word criticism:
“A friend of mine spoke of books that are dedicated like this: “To my wife, by whose helpful criticism ...” and so on. He said the dedication should really read: “To my wife. If it had not been for her continual criticism and persistent nagging doubt as to my ability, this book would have appeared in Harper’s instead of The Hardware Age.””
—Brenda Ueland (1891–1985)
“Homoeopathy is insignificant as an art of healing, but of great value as criticism on the hygeia or medical practice of the time.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art—and, by analogy, our own experience—more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)