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| Celestron 21035 70mm Travel Scope |
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| Manufacturer: Celestron |
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| List Price: $110.95 |
| Sale Price: $59.00 |
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Travel Scope 70 was designed with roving in mind. Peak quality equipment used to ensure stability and toughness. Minimal maintenance
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Product Details |
- All coated glass optical fundamentals for clear crisp images
- Smooth functioning altazimuth mount with simple pointing to located stuff
- Preassembled aluminum full size photographic tripod
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 Decent, Simple Telescope |
| Review Date: March 7, 2010 |
| Reviewer: J. Tobin, |
I bought this telescope so that I would have a touch to look at the sky with when I travel to observatories in the northern and southern hemispheres. For the price this telescope is a pretty excellent value; it's portable (nicely fits into my baggage) and virtually powerful. It's fantastic for looking at star clusters which need a wide field of view to fit the whole thing into view. This was the first telescope I've had where I could fit the entire Pleiades cluster into the field of view. At home, it's a fantastic telescope since it's quick to set up and take outside for a few minutes. You may not reckon about it, but the amount of work to set up a telescope will turn directly into how much you use it.
The only con that I see with the telescope is that the tripod it comes with is honestly unstable; it's a regular camera tripod. It may be a bit frustrating trying to center on stuff since it's a bit wobbly and hard to precisely center on a touch since it flexes a bit as well. Centering with the higher magnification eyepiece is even more tough. I found that a different tripod I had for my camera works a bit better. Someone buying this for casual use may not notice, but the image quality does degrade toward the edges of the field of view; that's to be expected since it has such quick optics and wide field of view. |
worth buying as a first telscope for fun
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| Review Date: September 29, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Kyaw Kyaw, |
| It's my first, and most probably last,telescope. Bought it to see from my 23rd floor Apartment building building around Penang George town, not for the moon and stars. I would say it's quite apposite for that purpose with the amount I spent on it. Two tribulations though; problem in adjusting the finder scope and a bit jerky tripods. |
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