It is important to note that this magnification can only yield sharp images after collimating carefully, but it was worth it as I've been able to observe Jupiter's main cloud bands as well as the red spot, Saturns well-defined rings and the Cassini division, Venus' phases and some minor details on its clouds, of course the Moon's craters and superficial features, as well as some deep space objects such as open and globular clusters, double stars and the Andromeda galaxy

Imagine me with the scope upside down and sideways and when I lose the image when there the scope slips a little

This telescope is capable of producing a clear image when primary and secondary mirror are aligned.

Even a set of less expensive "starter" eyepieces can improve the image

The images you see are pretty good for a beginner as well

If the mount is not shaking, the tripod transmit every single vibration to the eyepiece and blur the image

Fantastic telescope, nice crisp images

Most buyers will have no idea why their telescopes went from showing poor images to showing nothing but fuzzballs and stars that will not focus

Casual test with one of the eyepieces showed very good 'normal' (not inverted) image

The picture that I attached is a little blurry and it does not reflect well how the telescope can see; when looking through the telescope, assuming everything is focused, the image will be clear.

Great image too.

It went from a slightly white cloud to a BEAUTIFUL image with colors and significant detail

A true Newtonian uses a parabolic primary mirror, meaning it is ground to a precise shape to accommodate the existance of the secondary and allow the light from the effective viewing area to arrive at the focal point at the same time, giving you a clear and correct image

It does take patience while alignment occurs, but when it's on target, the image of the moon is perfect.

It has good magnification, but I found myself using the Celestron 70 mm travel telescope much more often than this one, and with much better image quality.

Spent many hours just trying to get it to produce decent star images - NG.Almost guaranteed to discourage any new would-be-astronomers

Within 10 minutes of really simple assembly, got really sharp images of lunar surface, jupiter and its moons, and stars like Sirius

It took nearly an hour to get a star in my sights and then the image was so shaky

The included high power lens does not give a very good image, even after careful collimation

The 4mm does not offer a clear image on anything other than the moon so far.

Cons: aligning the mirrors is extremely difficult, without aligning you will be frustrated with fuzzy images of everything you look at, instructional DVD is just about useless

Of course, since they are first-time telescope users, they might not even realize how poor their first images were to begin with

One must wait a few seconds for the image to stop shaking

but I can’t see anything smaller than the moon (and what a spectacular image

I just wish it came with some kind of nice storage case and that there was a way to keep it more steady when you are viewing because every little bump of the telescope makes the image shake really bad at such high magnifications

I prefer a correct image right angle finderscope on dobs due to the angle

The eye pieces are not the best quality and if you plan on seeing crisp images you will probably not ( assuming, havent taken it out yet)All in all a good buy for a child or young adult, or even if you just want to get into star gazing

even with the main bolt tightened further one still couldn’t touch once sighted else you could see nothing but a shaky image

Clear images

And the image was brighter as well

Tasco Newtonian years ago that showed crisp star images and great views of the Planets

You can get an adapter to connect a DSLR camera in place of the eye piece, but the mount shakes way too much to get a good image.

Because of this, it's downright impossible to properly align both mirrors in this style of telescope, and so your image will always be slightly blurry no matter what

Crystal-clear imaging, very easy to use, and solid, heavy construction

If the alignment is off slightly the telescope produces a blurry image even if the primary mirror is aligned properly.

It barely produces a usable image

I added an SV205 camera and am getting good images.

The images are blurry the mount is not stable

Support is 9-5 M-F.

If you are a beginner and want to look at things "out of the box" get yourself a refractor and spend as much as you can afford on it

Unfortunately, this telescope "works" as it was designed to work, which is poorly

not as well as you can with more premium telescopes

We finally found someone who has experience with telescopes and he said it has a defect of some kind or is just missing a