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About Nakshatra Scopes

Nakshatra Scopes is a telescope retailer and astronomy education platform based in Delhi, India. We have been operating since 2024. We currently stock 10 telescopes ranging from ₹12,000 to ₹1,70,000, and publish 18 guides on choosing, using and maintaining them.

Why we exist

Buying a first telescope in India is unusually hard. The market is thin, most listings are dominated by inflated magnification claims, and the instruments that rank highest in search results are frequently the ones most likely to end up unused in a cupboard.

The failure mode is almost always the same and almost never optical. It is a mount too unsteady to hold a target while you focus, paired with expectations set by photographs no visual telescope can reproduce. Both problems are fixable with honest information before the purchase and support afterwards, which is what we try to provide.

Every telescope we sell ships with setup and first-light guidance over WhatsApp. That is not a marketing line — it exists because the first session determines whether there is a second one.

How we choose what to stock

  • The mount must be usable

    We do not stock a telescope whose mount takes more than a few seconds to settle after a focus adjustment, regardless of how good the optics are. This rule alone excludes most of what sells under ₹12,000 in India.

  • Standard 1.25-inch eyepieces only

    A telescope using the obsolete 0.965-inch fitting locks its owner out of every meaningful upgrade path. We do not sell them.

  • No inflated magnification marketing

    We publish the honest optical ceiling — roughly twice the aperture in millimetres — on every product page, alongside a note that Indian atmospheric conditions usually impose a lower practical limit still.

  • It has to survive being shipped

    Telescopes travel badly. We stock instruments that arrive in working condition and hold their collimation through transit.

Our editorial rules

We sell the telescopes we write about, which is a conflict of interest worth naming rather than hiding. These are the rules we hold ourselves to because of it:

  • Every recommendation carries a written caveat explaining who it is wrong for.
  • We publish guides that recommend nothing when nothing is worth recommending — see our guide to telescopes under ₹10,000, which recommends binoculars instead.
  • We do not publish fabricated reviews, ratings, customer counts or awards. Product pages show no rating at all until a genuine customer review exists.
  • Every specification comes from the manufacturer's official documentation. Derived figures such as magnification and resolving power are calculated from those specifications using standard optical formulae, and we say which.
  • Where a competing product or an approach we do not sell is genuinely better for you, we say so.

If you find something on this site that overstates a telescope's capability, tell us and we will correct it.

Contact us

We answer questions before a purchase as readily as after one. If you are trying to decide between two telescopes, or wondering whether your sky can support what you want to observe, message us.

Start here

Buying guideBest telescopes in IndiaRanked picks across every budget, each with the reason it might not suit you.GuideHow to choose a telescopeFour questions about your circumstances that make the specifications obvious.CategoryBrowse all telescopesEvery type we stock, with the trade-offs of each explained.

See also our privacy policy and terms and conditions.