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Celestron 21041 60mm PowerSeeker Telescope
Canon 4 Stars & Up – click on the image below for more information.
- Affordable telescope for beginning astronomer; portable yet powerful
- All-glass optical components with high transmission coatings for enhanced image brightness and clarity
- Refractor optical design with a 60mm aperture and 700mm focal length
- Altazimuth mount suitable for terrestial viewing as well as astronomical use
- Includes 3x Barlow Lens (1.25″), 20mm eyepiece, 4mm eyepiece, aluminum tripod with accessory tray
Canon 4 Stars & Up
Offering exceptional value, these telescopes feature portable yet powerful designs with ample optical performance to excite any newcomer to the world of amateur astronomy. Celestron’s value priced PowerSeeker 60 is an affordable entry level telescope with some nice extras like a correct image prism and “The Sky” astronomy software included. The package also includes an Alt-Azimuth mount with adjustable aluminum tripod, high and low power eyepieces, a 3X barlow lens, and a 5 power cross hair f
Celestron 21041 60mm PowerSeeker Telescope
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Great starter telescope,
I am pleasantly surprised by the telescope I got for the price. It was intended for casual observing and I am getting a lot of enjoyment out of it. It has all the accessories needed for viewing. High powered eyepiece, low powered eyepiece, adjustable tripod (stable for this size) and fine adjustment control for easy panning. I have shopped telescopes before and noticed that the tripods and eyepieces aren’t too good in quality. But this one is different. I love the way it is easy to use for land viewing and gives nice views of the moon and its craters, specially when I use the high powered eyepiece. Its pretty lightweight so I can take it outside easily. It assembles easily and in my opinion is a very easy to use telescope. Overall, a nice telescope at a great price.
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|Too Small, Poor Mount, Useless for Astronomy,
This scope is not a good starter scope for anyone interested in astronomy. Here’s why:
1. The objective is too small, only 60 mm, 2.36 inches, so it is too small to bring in the light necessary for even a beginning look at the universe. I suppose it is adequate for the moon, but that is it. The planets will appear as very small disks. One will be able to see Saturn’s rings, but the image will be very small. Forget it for deep sky objects, clusters, galaxies, etc.
2. The mount is an altazimuth, which will not follow the celestial object in the sky. The earth is rotating, and anyone focusing on a star or moon will quickly find the object drifting out of the field of vision. A better mount is an equatorial mount which makes it much easier to track objects.
3. The 4mm eyepiece is too powerful for this scope. The observer will find it hard to look through (very small eye opening), and will in most cases cause blurred images. The 20 mm eyepiece is the only functional eyepiece. The barlow is a 3x, which again is too poweerful for this scope.
4. The mount will vibrate when touched, which will cause the image in the eyepiece to “shiver”, which is very frustrating.
Even for the low price, don’t be enticed by this scope; it has too many flaws. Save your money for a larger scope with a better mount. I suggest the following: Orion SpaceProbe 130ST EQ Telescope; Orion Observer 70mm EQ Refractor Telescope
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