Celestron Speciality Series FirstScope Telescope

This is one awesome telescope!I bought it for 4.5k inr, and I've had great fun! It's really difficult to get photos from it, but it provides amazing clarity when seen with eye.Craters on the moon are very nicely visible. I can see some sort of colour on Jupiter, but you shouldn't expect to see the banding. 4 Galiean moons are visible as well. Saturn and it's rings are visible as well.While you can see planets through it, you should keep your expectations low. Planets are really far after all. Jun-Aug are the best if you want to see Jupiter and Saturn. Moon is best seen 2-3 days after no moon day.The "Hassle free packaging" is not needed. It costs around 1.5k extra, and my telescope arrived just fine with the normal packaging.

Absolutely it's for the beginners. The best in beginner's telescope. But don't expect much from it. Only moon is visible clearly and the rest of the celestial objects are visible as dots. But the other telescopes at this price even can't do that. If you wish spend a little bit more on telescopes then you can get a professional telescope.

This cannot be termed as a telescope as you barely get to see any good images. Bright stars just look like shniny dots and planets look like a little bigger dots ( you can see that it is a tiny sphere and that's it) You cannot see the bands of Jupiter, the phase of Venus or the rings of Saturn. Now any telescope which is incapable of doing that cannot be termed as a telescope. I've attached a photo of Venus which is processd digitally (zoomed and enhanced a bit).View of moon is no extraordinary. Binoculars offer a better view.Since the price is around ₹6000, it is not worth buying at all. Terrestrial viewing is upside down so it's of no use there as well. A good option would be buy a good pair of binoculars in the same price range which will give you a better viewing experience. Binoculars tend to get a bit shaky but you can use a tripod to stabilize them.

Good for planetary views. Some star clusters and nebula can be seen with average quality view. Galaxies views are not so great because of optics limitations of this scope. Great buy if you are just starting to explore.

I have not found this product very useful. The objects in the sky appear the same as with naked eye

Edit: Opinion as of now (Aug, 2018)Current price just doesn't cut it. In US the price has always been 40-50$ or even less. Buy it if you get this for <4000 or don't. Reduced 2 stars now coz of price. I bought it for 3400 (>3 Yrs Back)I still use this occasionally. Will post some pics for you in following daysOriginal Review [cut short & some edits] (Strictly for product alone)What do I get?Just as shown in the image. Small, compact and light. Hardly measures 2 feet in any orientation. No assembly required. Take it out of the box, insert eyepiece in the focuser and you are good to go. Focuser is fine and comes with a dust cap. Remove the dust cap of the tube and you can see secondary mirror mount and the primary at the end of the tube. Look through the focuser and you can see the secondary. It is a dobsonian mount, so motion control is easy. There is lock knob on the stand to lock its vertical motion. But while locking, the tube tilts a bit in horizontal direction. Nothing to worry about, you can counter it by rotating the stand in opposite direction. Comes with Huygens 20 mm and Ramsden 4 mm eyepieces. That's all! Everything in the box covered! (Except warranty tag, manual and bubble wraps -_-)What can I see?It all depends on the seeing conditions and time of the year. Moon, Jupiter, Venus, Saturn, Star clusters and hopefully a few others. When I say Jupiter don't assume that it'll be as big as a football. It is of the size of this letter --> o <-- Looks like a bright spot. You can see moons of jupiter too. They are this big --> . <-- Jupiter and moons look like this --> . o . . . <--;... Saturn's rings (You can definitely make out that there is a ring) and its moon titan (again a --> . <--) can be seen. Venus is too bright. You need filters for good views. But view of moon is revealing. All of the above will be revealing as well, if this is your first time. Attached a pic of moon taken on mobile just by placing the camera above the eyepiece.Note: Actual view of moon will be much brighter than in the pic. It may be too bright for the eye. Instead of buying a moon filter you can actually take a pic in your phone and stare at it. But taking pics like this can be irritating. It is hard to locate and click pics this way. Moon is okay but other stuff is really hard or not possible.

A very good scope . Begginers must buy it . U can se saturn and its rings , jupiter and its moon (O....), mars and venus phases . Also buy its accessory kit which comes with finderscope , 2 more ep and moon filter which would give a good view of moon . I m very happy with this telescope .

Probably the best one to start chasing your dream with! Your expertise, localiity, weather, environment matter the same as the model specifications do.

Todo bien por el precio

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Good for kids

Good value as an intro to astronomy for young children.Well packed and not too big for storage.

Ottimo per cominciare, è molto facile puntare ed osservare qualcosa, ovviamente per le caratteristiche non permette di vedere chissà che cosa ma, è ottimo per osservare la luna.