Celestron FirstScope Telescope
I purchased this telescope from BJ's just to see for myself how good it was. It was cheap. The sale price I got with a coupon was $40. The scope comes with a dobsonian mount that is pretty good, but a bit lightweight. That's suppose to be a selling point according to Celestron. It moved very smoothly. The scope comes with two Huygen eyepieces 4mm and 20mm or 75X and 15X. I used both and at low power I had no problem, but the eyepieces are usually the weak spot of any telescope at that price. I used my own 12mm plossl, 7.4mm Teleview and a 18mm orthoscopic and found the scope did much better.
At high magnification, there was a hallow or coma. You could see the airy disk. I focused in on Jupiter and clearly saw the four moons, but the bands I didn't see. Maybe I should have waited a bit, but that hallow did it in for me.
I saw M31 Andromeda, but I found it with luck. The scope doesn't come with a finderscope. It would have been much easier if it came with a 1x bracket type. You know the type, a piece of sheet metal stamped with ring on either side for at least aligning the scope. The mounting bracket is there, but you can order this extra stuff from Celestron.
I do want to see the moon with this. All I wanted was a cheap no worry scope to keep in the porch. My homemade copier lense scope is pretty bad compared to this scope. This is a big improvement.
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