Although the slow motion controls do take a little getting used to if you're like me and never used them before.

If you are willing to put up with the cheap slow motion controls and collimating the telescope and aligning the finderscope and only to look at the moon and some planets then this telescope is for you

is that the control aren't sturdy and that is a minor detail to me for the price tag.

Slow motion controls are good

my problem was how cheap the slow motion controls were it takes forever to find something especially since whatever you are looking at is slowly moving away

The Right Ascension axis' slow motion control was very sticky and needed to be greased before it would perform reliably.

The RA fine tune control is awful and that is putting to mildly

Very difficult to set and the controls are clunky

The controls are a BIG pain to use I was having trouble finding the moon with this thing it takes a while to find things especially with the cheap slow motion controls, the tripod is fairly sturdy it didn't really give me problems

The slow motion controls are plastic and feel like they can snap any second when you turn them, they're pretty cheaply made thats the only thing I feel is cheaply made though

The telescope was a great starter scope but the controls were very stiff and moving the scope around the sky was difficult.

The slow motion controls are also finicky.

In addition, the slow motion controls felt very cheap like they would break after a couple uses as did the finder scope

After oiling both of them they are now moving properly but still seem a little tight especially the Right Ascension control.

n’t recommend extending the ‘feet’ much, if at all, or it shakes pretty badly

n’t recommend extending the ‘feet’ much, if at all, or it shakes pretty badly