telescopes

For anyone interested in observational astronomy. I live in Arizona in the Mohave Desert where nighttime skies tend to be dark and clear. Often the Milky Way appears so dense it looks more like a cloud streaming across the sky than a belt of stars. This year will be the best for about a decade...

I have 2 telescopes I paid a good penny for to watch the stars. Everything is upside down. Now I want to use them to watch the terrain and approaching trouble. How the heck do you set it up to see right side up? Help cause I'm going nuts here. Ready to tose it out the window.lol :confused:

Listed below are a number of different websites that explain the difference between telescopes and optical sights that shooters use on rifles. In a nutshell, telescopes that are mounted on rifles are used to enhance long range accuracy. Optical sights that are mounted on rifles are used to...