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- First ReviewJuly 25, 2010
- Last ReviewJuly 25, 2010
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- Average Rating5
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Todd G's Reviews
This ultraportable day and night telescope is perfect for on-the-go astronomers. It is very simple to set up on the tripod, and with the red dot finder scope finding an object is easy. Comes with a backpack so you can take this anywhere you want.
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I purchased this scope just as it went on sale. It arrived in less than a week and a half (I live in Canada and was during July 1st/4th weekend) which was quicker than I had expected. The packages arrived packed very well. The scope took me less than 5 minutes to assemble once everything was unpacked and I have only assembled one of those toy scopes before once. The first decent night I was able to find Jupiter and see the galilean satellites, the Andomeda galaxy and Pleaides just by scanning the sky in the general location. When the moon came into sight the telescope brought out nice detail on the terminator, showing the craters and mountains from their shadows. I should also mention I live in a very light polluted city of almost 400 000 people. I tried using the supplied finder scope but had no luck in calibrating it, admittedly I only spent 10 minutes trying to do so. What I do is point the telecope in the general area according to a skymap and using a low magnification focal lens to scan for the object and then swap in the higher powered once object is located. The backpack is lightweight and seems to be manufactured from quality material. Inside the backpack is a divider that is attached with velcro to separate the telescope from the tripod. The front pouch is big enough to put the supplied lenses and maybe 3-4 more. The tripod is made of a solid lightweight plastic which is compact. Considering the tripod came with it, its pretty decent. If you knock the tripod it takes maybe 5-6 seconds to stablize at 70x magnification (barlow lens). At higher magnifcation there is a little trick for locking it onto an object, aim a little lower than the target and then tighten the screw because on mine at least, locking it tilts the scope upwards slightly. I was happy to find out the tripod works perfectly with my digital camera for taking regular photographs as well. All in all, great beginner scope, the tripod is fine, backpack is perfect but the finder scope is either too time consuming for the impatient to calibrate each time you use it or poorly designed/matched for scope.
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