Celestron 21045 Powerseeker 114Eq Telescope - Black

Got exactly what i ordered, great as a first telescope need to learn how to use it!

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I decided to get this telescope as it has an equitorial (EQ) mount. I am a beginner astronomer and looking to get my kids involved. I bought this telescope for its price to capability ratio. The capabilities of this telescope are, in some cases, similar to some that much more expensive. The equitorial mount is big plus as it helps to locate celestial objects and track them for a while with slow motion cables. With an azimuth mount the adjustment only goes up and down in slow motion, but stars move in arc fashion, not straight up and down. The EQ mount has a right ascension slow motion adjustment that allows the object to stay in the finder for a long time. So far, I have been pleased with this telescope. The finder is a bit cheap. It has 3 adjustment screws that help lock in your target in the crosshairs located within the finder. It's easy to knock out of alignment. This is really frustrating, especially at night. I am replacing the original finder scope with a Telrad finder scope. The optics are great! Close looks at the moon using the 4mm eye piece are amazing. Even the 20mm eye piece are very good. I intend on upgrading these eye pieces in the near future, but they are great for being out of the box. The stand is pretty good. The adjustments are easy to work with and lock into place. I may end up replacing some of the clutch engagements with something I can use with a little more torque. The current clutch engagements for RA and DEC use basic twist knobs that are difficult to get a good torque with just fingers. This results in a little more slippage than I would like. With the legs fully extended the tripod is shaky, but can by easily fixed with a 10 pound weight or so hanging from the accessory tray. The balancing of this scope if pretty easy to do. The instructions say nothing about how to balance the scope, but searching online is easy to do. The instructions have you place the counter weight in the middle of the bar. It's best to have it all the way at the bottom for full balance. The telescope body should be about a 60/40 split with 60% toward the front and 40% toward the rear of the rings. All in all I like this telescope and will keep it for quite a while. There are options to add a motor to keep an object in the finder automatically and other eye pieces to increase the resolution coming from the telescope. The OTA has a great focal length and diameter to see planets, the moon, and some deep space objects. If you're wanting a telescope that is versatile, fits a reasonable budget, and is fairly easy to use, then this is a great beginner scope.

So after watching the ‘how to’ videos on the company website we took it outside for a second go (first time we couldn’t see the moon in front of us haha). We where not disappointed! Really good quality from the basic lenses (hard to use my phone to take a photo). We’re looking to spot the planets next. It can be a bit fiddly and very sensitive to being knocked so kids would need supervision. Other than that it was a solid investment, not too expensive and not terrible that we wouldn’t see anything.

This product is really great . I was able to learn to use it in the first 2 days (thanks to the sellers who helped a lot in the operation of the telescope) . And it was the first time that amazon was not very supportive during the shipping but cannot blame the seller for that as they provided the quality product that they promised . I was able to see Moon , Mars & Jupiter in the first few days and trying for Orion Nebula for sometime now. The product itself is great and I would recommend this to the all the amateurs who want to buy their first telescope . Some people have left negative reviews for eg. that the telescope doesn't work . So, I would like to ensure you that it works perfectly fine once you learn to use it.

Il prodotto è di buona fattura. Per iniziare è ottimo ,servirebbe qualche oculare migliore ,di quelli in dotazione solo quello di 20 mm a mio parere è decente. Per iniziare lo consiglio

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