This scopes main weakness seems too be the mount from the tripod too scope, it dosent stay in place great and needs tightening sometimes. And saturn even tho it is very small its still an amazing sight. This telescope shows some beautiful view of the moon and saturn,the moon looked much better than i exspected it to,great detail.
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The selection of eye peices was pretty good, the 20mm is very easy too use,the 12.5mm also very easy, the 6mm has a poor field of view but did give the largest views of saturn seeing a gap beetwen the rings and the planet, but with slightly less clarity than the 20mm, the barlow only seems any good for lunar viewing. Placing the dot over saturn with the 20mm eye peice found saturn again and again, its effective.but due too lack of instructions i feel many people may dismiss it as useless. You can get views of saturn and its rings with this scope very easily one the red dot finderscope is aligned. The second night i realized there was a couple of screws that could be adjusted and i then realized it needs aligning, i found the easiest way was too get the moon in view and then center the red dot too its center, once this was done the red dot sight is very effective. The first night i used the scope i too thought the red dot sight was a useless gimick and had a hard time finding anything at all without it. The instructions included were poor, they explained how too set up the telescope but didnt give any information how too use it, nor did it mention the red dot scope needs aligning!, this may not be a problem too a more exsperianced astronomer who realizes this, but too a novice its not apparent.the red dot looks central and many new people seem too pass it of as useless strait away. It took me and my girlfriend 5 mins too unpack and assemble the complete telescope having never done so before. I have seen many people advise not touching this scope or any "department" type scope with a barge pole, however i feel if you understand thier limitations and what too exspect from them they can be of use in the right circumstances!.įirst impressions strait out the box-this telescope acctualy looks pretty sturdy! the tripod is aluminium and takes seconds too assemble/dismantle, very novice friendly.
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This Telescope retailed for £100 originaly, then dropped too £50 - and as low as 39.99 clearance price. But due too the nature of the scope i thought mabey a complete novice review of this telescope might be helpfull to other complete newbies like myself!.Ģ0mm eyepiece = 40x magnification or 120x magnification when used in conjunction with the 3x Barlow lens.ġ2.5mm eyepiece = 64x magnification or 192x magnification when used in conjunction with the 3x Barlow lensĦmm eyepiece = 133x magnification or 399 magnification when used in conjunction with the 3x Barlow lens Normaly id never atempt too review something i am so new too, in fact i dont think i have ever reviewed anything before!.
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Reading reviews here has been very interesting and helpfull for me, i am a complete novice too astronomy and only just recieved my first telescope 2 days ago.