My son is new to telescopes but he found it easy to use and view all of the stars that he was interested in. It was a hit on Christmas morning.

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I wasn't sure what to expect,But my kids are loving this telescope.Super easy to use for them and it is really powerful.It comes it a great carrying bag too! Easy to carry out.I will buy it again for my nephew.

Wow! I was shocked at how a $50 speaker can have such great quality bass! My husband got a bose speaker for at work but was disappointed in the quality of the bass so I got him this and he is thrilled! The sound is clear and the bass is fantastic - its better than his bose and is like half the price of the bose! Highly recommend! We did have one issue with it. For some reason the first time we paired it everything sounded tinny. We turned off Bluetooth and turned it back on and the problem was solved.

Good product for the price, excellent sound quality.

It's a well made telescope.My astronomy friends tell me that an "8" is really the biggest scope to still be "portable", that is, able to be transported in your car.And this is the bottom line for most of us, unfortunately. Light pollution is really extreme where I reside in the suburbs, and likely for most people.If I lived in the depths of West Texas or SW New Mexico, I would probably opt for a permanently mounted 11 inch or even 14 inch reflector. That would be the ultimate. With a permanent set up, so much work could be avoided each time you wished to enjoy viewing.But where I live, on the best nights, late, I can get some decent planet viewing and possibly a few other objects of interest. The sky will NEVER be dark enough, or transparent enough, to really see what the telescope can do.The closest dark sky site to me (Dallas area) is about 3 hours (153 miles, 3hrs, 11 mins. google maps) away to the west. The CPC 800 is portable enough to make this trip. You have to be able to set up very near your car as the scope IS heavy.I find when practicing with the scope in my driveway, the alignment is crucial. I use the 3 star method. I also use an eyepiece with cross hairs, as the alignment star must be exactly in the center of the fov for the best alignment. The better the initial alignment, the better everything goes after that. The telescope's mounting tri-pod has been beefed up, I am told, in recent years. It has a very important leveling bubble to ensure that the tripod is perfectly level before you put the heavy telescope on top of it. This is a crucial feature. Bolting the telescope to the tripod is a fairly simple procedure, although one of the 3 bolts on my unit is troublesome and does not tighten down readily, as do the other two.Reading the provided manual cannot be overemphasized, as using the hand held controller is not always perfectly user friendly and intuitive. You will have to use the controller to slew the scope, and make tiny corrections to get your alignment stars perfectly centered. With practice, I have been able to find objects from the data base well in the fov of the eyepiece on the first try, without slewing in search of them.The final word for using this telescope is, again, dark skies. I used to be astounded that many deep sky objects were discovered over a hundred years ago with very primitive equipment. The reason those guys could find those objects was their dark skies. Even right outside Paris or London, it got VERY dark once the sun set. Now it requires a pilgrimage. When I was a young 20something guy, my friends and I often took note of an open star cluster visible with the naked eye called the "beehive", used by the ancients to gauge the quality of observing. That was just west of the Dallas area. In this same area today, no one will ever see the beehive.BTW, if your ultimate goal in amateur astronomy is to possibly achieve good astro photography, this telescope is not for you. To perfectly track the stars as the earth rotates, you need an equatorial mount, one that tilts to exactly match your observing latitude. These mounts are more expensive. There is an adaptor "wedge" that can be purchased for the CPC 800, but I have read that users are disappointed with it.Many of us are fascinated with the notion of receiving the ancient photons that have traveled through space for thousands or millions of years, directly into our own eyes.Do not sip on the wine you brought until AFTER the set up and alignment and testing phase is complete! You will need your scruples! After that, when it's really dark, relax and put on your music earbuds and enjoy the heavens.Dec 2013.Well, of course the big deal now is the new product from Celestron, the Star Sense. This gadget eliminates the need to do all of the very tedious alignment details. It does the alignment for you! It currently works best on an Alt/Az scope like the CPC models. Not so well on the equatorial mounts, though future software could enable that as well. You mount the Star Sense where the finder scope was, as you won't need it. If the difficulties of the alignment are eliminated, the enjoyment part can start much faster! The price on the Star Sense may come down once the newness of the concept wears off.

Works great, very shaky at high magnification, but I guess all telescopes like this are. Saw Saturn's rings!

I bough this as a started for my kid and I and couldn’t be happier. Yes it is not a top of the line and compare to high end tripods it’s the not sturdiest tripod as others notes. However it work excellent for a starter telescope. Very easy to set up and store. Excellent product.