An excellent choice for several reasons - Celestron EclipSmart Travel Solar Telescope 50

This is the second Solar Telescope I have owned, so I do have something to compare it to.

My other Solar Telescope is a Celestron Portable Solar Telescope or PST.

1. This telescope is lighter. The PST is heavier and you will need a heavier duty tripod to maintain stability of the image.
2. This telescope has a 50 mm objective lens versus the 40 mm objective lens of the PST
3. This telescope is much easier to aim at the sun because the sighting mechanism is external and mounted on top of the tube.
4. The focal length on this scope is shorter than that of the PST, so the field ov view is wider and the Sun will remain in view for a longer period of time before an adjustment is necessary.
5. This telescope comes with its own tripod, whereas the PST does not.
6. This telescope is about $100.00 whereas the PST is (or was) about $700/00

However, what you are going to see in this scope is different, because the PST is looking at the Sun in the Hydrogen-Alpha wavelength of light. In the PST you can barely see small jets of plasma coming up from the surface of the Sun around the edge of the disk. You will not be able to see that in this telescope, since it is using a glass solar safe lens to view the Sun. In this telescope, the Sun will appear as a white disk and in the PST the surface will appear reddish-orange in color.

Sunspots will look the same in both telescopes. And Sunspots are about all you will ever see anyway.

Considering the difference in cost and the other factors listed above, I would recommend this telescope over the more expensive PST model.