As a former professional astronomer and user of other amateur telescopes I bought this to try and introduce my children to observing and am mainly comparing this to a 6 inch Newtonian reflector with an equatorial mount which has served me well in the past, but is very large and heavy to set up, so an easier alternative was called for.The first night I used this I was hampered by cloud, so could only do a basic setup and some initial lunar observing, but I was pleased to find that this was easy to set up in a short period of time, using the quick setup guide. The lunar views I got were excellent and my kids (and even my wife!) were enthralled with the first views of the moon that we obtained.The second night, although cloud was again an issue, I managed to set the scope up fully. the set up was easy, following the instructions, although it is sometimes tricky to remember that the arrow buttons are only used for controlling the movements of the scope from the handset and not navigating the menus, however they were largely self-explanatory and made the initial setup easy. I would advise using a custom site for alignment using a smartphone with GPS (almost ubiquitous these days) to obtain the precise location, just remember you will need the location in degrees, minute and seconds of arc, rather than decimal. This is quite easy to find with a quick internet search on a smartphone however. Exact times from a reliable source, such as a synced smartphone is also required, along with your time zone. Once these are in you can choose to align the scope using any three bright stars or other celestial objects (moon or planets), simply align the object in the finder scope, then centralise in the eyepiece and align using the handset. This was done in minimal time, even with poor visibility due to cloud and the computer accurately aligned the scope at the first attempt with no need for firmware updates or similar for the handset. Following alignment I used the sky tour to find appropriate objects and after checking that the sky model was correct (it was able to find the moon without difficulty in the solar system mode) I used the handset to move to Andromeda, which was visible as a fuzzy patch, despite poor visibility and quite bad light pollution. The tracking seems to work fairly well and will keep an object in view for a significant amount of time (quite sufficient for real-time observing using the eyepiece), but did exhibit some element of drift, so would not be suitable for deep sky astrophotography, but this is to be expected with an alt-azimuth mount, as compared to an equatorial setup.Unfortunately, the sky conditions deteriorated further preventing any more testing on other objects, but overall this telescope is easy to set up and provides a quick means of finding astronomical objects. As a starter scope at a reasonable price it would seem that it is difficult to beat. In terms of power, I did buy the external battery pack which allows extended observing and this seems to be the best way to power the scope as while using the internal 8xAA batteries would avoid any problems with cord entanglement, the lack of battery life may limit it without a substantial supply. Cord length and wrapping would be even more of an issue with a mains powered supply and could be problematic for anything more than a small distance outside. The scope does need power to operate though and cannot really be operated without it, which is definitely a downside if you were wanting the use it in an unpowered alt-azimuth mode.Overall, this seems to provide a good observing experience for the aperture and price and is highly recommended for a beginner. Obviously, you could get a larger aperture without the goto function for the same price, but this really wins on convenience. I look forward to may happy nights observing with my kids in the near future.

C'est mon telescope préféré. Il a beaucoup d'avantages. Il est léger , transportable peu encombrant. Il permet d'observer les planètes du système solaire. J'ai fait le tour du Gabon plusieurs fois avec ce télescope. Il a aussi quelques inconvénients. D'abord la monture alt azimutale n'est pas adaptée au suivi des astres . De plus lorsqu'elle n'est pas alimentée il est difficile de pointer un astre avec précision. La vitre a l'avant du télescope n'est ni amovible,ni remplaçable. J'ai fait tombé mon telescope par inadvertance et impossible de la remplacer.

Mit der Leistung bin ich sehr zufrieden, jedoch musste ich feststellen dass das Skyalign beinahe nicht funktioniert. Das Align schlägt entweder fehl oder ist sehr sehr ungenau. Habe noch keine Lösung für das Problem gefunden.

Ho letto molto prima di comprare il mio telescopio e devo dire che è stato un acquisto azzeccatissimo, facile e veloce da montare ben trasportabile. Il vero ottimo prodotto entry level come deve essere. Mostra i suoi limiti se la passione diventa davvero seria e totalizzante.

Grande qualità ad un prezzo basso. Facilissimo da usare, è anche facile da trasportare.Adatto anche per appassionati più esperti.Sono soddisfattissimo.