A small telescope, always a refractor or catadioptric, generally used for terrestrial viewing. Of limited utility for astronomy, though many are marketed as such. Probably the wrong choice unless you want to use it also for bird watching, or as a powerful telephoto lens on a SLR camera.

Shown: Leica Televid Spotting Scopes A high power monocular, often with interchangeable eyepieces which provide varied magnification, field or view, etc.

a birding essential at the Center

a compact telescope designed primarily for observing things on earth -- not in the night sky

a compact telescope designed primarily for terrestrial

a melange of a binocular and a telescope

a portable telescope , optimized for theobservation of terrestrial objects

a small, portable telescope intended for viewing objects on land as opposed to viewing astronomical objects in the night sky

a sure way to open new birding opportunities for you

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A telescope on a stand, used to observe the position of a shot on the target from a distance and without having to retrieve it. This is done either by directly viewing the hole, or watching the signals of a marker in the butts (especially at long ranges). Normally a magnification of between 20 and 30 times is used.

A spotting scope is a portable telescope, optimized for the observation of terrestrial objects. The magnification of a spotting scope is typically on the order of 20X to 60X.