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This telescope is the perfect Go to telescope for the beginner and the advanced. I have bigger and more powerful telescopes but I love the portability of this telescope and use it more often. It is the perfect size and plenty of stargazing power. "Keep Looking Up"
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: New
Doesn't have an auto-off, so you burn $9.00 worth of batteries each time you forget to hit the off switch. The instruction manual does not match the product. There is a legal caveat acknowledging this, but the product is too complex and too expensive to have an incorrect and confusing instruction manual. It needs to be updated. The sighting device is a cheap red-dot scope from a kids Daisy air rifle, too cheap for a $700 telescope, and it doesn't have sufficient adjustment range to get the dot aligned, so you just have to get it as close as possible and then extrapolate in your mind to where the telescope is really pointing. And there is no glare guard to the sighting device, so the smallest amount of ambient light creates a reflection of the sighting device base that prevents seeing stars through the sighting device. I find it bizzare that you must go through the alignment process each and every time you power up. The telescope would be infinitely more useful if you could align the telescope once, and not move it, and it would still be still aligned the next time. Yet the manufacture didn't invest a dime to save the alignment. Particularly bad since you can't leave the power on. Maybe an AC Adapter would fix that. I was originally very impressed by the alignment process-some really smart software engineers! After first successful alignment I said "find the moon" and it got real close, but the moon was just outside the view. With the cheapo viewfinder I didn't know which way to nudge the moon back in view. (if you can't find the moon, how will you ever find a distant star?) Then I said "find Uranus," which worked. Then I said "find the moon" again, and the telescope pointed 180 deg away from the moon. I'm not so impressed anymore with the software. Read full review
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: New
The Telescope is well designed and I like that it is not too heavy. My son uses it more and set it in less than 10 minutes. I have not been able to see clear images that is why I gave it 3 stars. It may be that I need more experience using it.
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
Great for beginning or intermediate users. Easy to break down and move about and setup. I have owned mostly Meade scopes and being the first celestron scope I was fairly impressed with the outcome. Views were sharp on distant stars and the moon looked extremely clear. Can take short exposure photos but most long time exposure photos would take more advanced and expensive equipment. I bought mine used but even new they’re a good bargain. I use an adapter for power and the cord could have been longer, but an extension allows more flexibility.
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
I’ve had my eye on a NexStar 6SE for a while and I couldn’t be happier. It arrived quickly, in excellent condition, and the mirrors look amazing! It assembled quickly and without fuss. I owned a 4SE for years and enjoy the upgrade.
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
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