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Grandson enjoys this very much

Give this to my Grandson for his 7th Birthday. He was thrilled

Excellent choice, easy to use!

This is a fantastic product. Very easy setup. Very easy to use. My grandson loves this and seems to want to go out every evening and enjoy the universe. Highly recommend for educational purpose and family entertainment.

Easy to assemble and use. Great for the kids and us older children!

This was a gift for an 11 yr. old beginner astronomer. Notice the lenses are very clear with no smudges, unlike some other bargain telescopes. Easy to assemble. Includes full size tripod, two refractory lenses and two Barlow lenses, making this quite a complete and versatile scope.Ideal companion book, "50 Things To See With A Small Telescope". You'll get more use out of your new telescope and well worth the price!

Arrived nice and fast, and for my first telescope ever it's awesome, it works fantastic, the family and I love takin out, we have to make do with the park in our town, we can see the ring around saturn and jupiter with its moons all lined up, can't wait to buy more eyepieces for it and a camera holder, that's why there isn't any pictures to put here

Very happy. Might be a bit tricky for someone with no experience at all but it's far far better than my first scope from years ago.

The sight is especially helpful. It's very easy to use. Some have commented that there is no rear alignment reference. This is because it's not required. Just look in the sight. The red spot always points where the sight is pointing. No need to be exactly behind it. You do need to align the sight with the scope as mentioned in the instructions.

The one down side is that it does not accept front filters too easily. The front of the main tube is molded plastic that is curved somewhat. This creates an issue with the mounting of front filters. I made some minor mods to make it work for a sun filter.

great price, great scope.

With only this telescope and a cell phone, we took this. It works REALLY well. I am impressed.

This was a gift for my Nephew who lives in Montana...in the mountains above Helena. He just loves it !!! Highly recommend it !

Grandson loved it, great starter telescope.

Looks good so far, we are going to test it out tonight. My 7 year old is very excited.

I bought this telescope for my 7 year old granddaughter for Christmas 2016. Currently rated 4 stars because we have not set it up for use yet. Will follow-up with a review after Christmas. It was packed securely for shipment; after looking in the box I did not see any broken pieces, etc. From others' reviews I think it will be a good beginner telescope for her.

Bought as a Christmas gift

Looks nice, but no instructions on how to put it together included in package. Had to download them. They really weren't all that much, so do not understand why they could not have been included.

My 6 y/0 loved it.

I probably would've gave it five stars but the motor didn't work.

a good newbie telescope..I am a newbie..
took a while to find the moon, it was in a small cresent phase.
when i was able to find the moon,the image was bright and well focused.

spotting scope is "iffy".
it was this or more ammo !!!!

After putting it together it works great. NOTE: Watch videos on how to operate, read the directions, find someone to teach you! You can see Saturns rings, but not knowing how to set the auto horizon motor keeps you looking for Saturn!

It's ok

My telescope came early and well packaged. This is an excellent BEGINNER telescope. Works very well on large objects like the sun and the moon. I also use it for spotting game. Do not let the assembly of the telescope intimidate you. The hardest part was installing the center support/storage tray on the tripod. There are several instructional videos on Youtube on how to assemble and properly use this telescope. Excellent investment for good fun with the family.

Don't expect a kid to use this. Way too many pieces and not very sturdy. If you expect a kid to use it, it should be much simpler. KEEP LOOKING.

We have yet to use this. There are NO instructions on how to use it or what to do with each piece. Searched everywhere online and still never found anything..not even a youtube video on how to use it. A little disappointed. Seems good quality but, wouldn't know.

Real hard time tuning in to whatever they're looking at but they are young and impatient. It's hard for me too but I only have full,vision in one eye

The telescope came in good packaging but directions for assembly were online only. I cannot find directions for use and for someone who hasn't used a telescope in years, I really need those directions!Until we can figure this thing out, there are two very frustrated adults and three disappointed kids.

This may be a wonderful telescope, but for the money, can't we get printed instructions in the box? What about us folks with no internet at home? Cheap-os

its hard to adjust it took us a long time just to see the moon

Pretty good scope. Hard to find what you wanna see though. I think like a lot of things you really get what you pay for.

This didn't work very well and broke the first day.

Unsteady when raised high, and difficult for a 6 yr old to see anything with its mediocre focusing abilities.

Cheap.

Instructions not clear and some of the items don't know where to go and view not so good and finally I don't know what the motor is for did not do anything at all! Waist moneys and probably will sitting and collecting dirt!

Piece of junk.

Junk. Returning item.

i don't know if this is good one to reccomend to anyone. I can't solve problems that I see picture up side down and no see any planet yet. Not satisfy it and waste money. Want return it.

Poor quality. To much play to be usable. Returning the telescope unfortunately.

Not as good of a quality as it described can't even see through the lenses very dissapointed with the or item!!!

I haven't been able to make this work. I tried searching for instructions online but it's not as intuitive as you would think.

The motor doesn't move! I need to check on returning it, just haven't had an opportunity.