Just ordered this telescope! How do u find the telescope? Pros/cons? Does it have slow motion controls for manual tracking of planets? How's the mount and finderscope?
rccrashburn this is medium power, 66x magnification, achieved with a 10mm eyepiece. The highest usable power is around 200x magnification, if atmospheric conditions allow. The highest power I've taken it up to is 165x magnification on the moon, and the image was clear and crisp :)
Ask yourself, what do I want from this telescope? If it's a gift for a child who may change hobby very quickly and be innocently unquestioning, then great. If however you want to look seriously at planets etc. even as a beginner then avoid this telescope. Some sites describe is as a beginner to intermediate telescope - I would say complete novice. Like with most things, you get what you pay for. Essentially you are paying nigh on £300 for an accessory tray and smart phone holder. I am misguded? Seriously mistaken? Consider this: Sky At Night magazine gave the optics for this telescope one of the lowest ratings out of all the features it reviewed for this particular model (build and design, optics, asembly etc. etc.). Optics are important maybe? Believe me I wanted to refute other negative reviews for this telescope. Then I used it myself. People say 'but it's a lovley scope!' or ' OK, so Jupiter is a small featureless disc and Mars a red dot almost - BUT you're viewing it from you back garden!! Ain't that great!' Not when you could save a little more and get a telescope with more aperture/focal length/go to mount etc. Buy this scope and buy expensive eyepieces to try and improve it, forever pray for near perfect seeing conditions - to still see tiny discs and twinkles. Look on TH-cam for this telescope - you'll get flash commercials or user posts of views of the moon, and the moon....and of er.. of the moon. And to top it off, of the moon. A good telescope to view the moon. Please, please I implore you, please refute my review with actual, unenhanced views with this telescope of Jupiter's cloud belts and possibly the elusive GRS, or Mars, or Saturn and the rings with Casini division. Why? Because I've paid for this and am lamenting myself. Realistically? Serious astronomy is still quite niche, so to see what I would like to see is expensive. An affluent individual's hobby. Summary of telescope: A Celestron hustle.
Very nice video. What camera/phone did you use to capture the images? regards
Cristian Rosca Thank you, i used my iPhone 7 :)
Backyard astronomer Cool thank you.
Just ordered this telescope! How do u find the telescope? Pros/cons? Does it have slow motion controls for manual tracking of planets? How's the mount and finderscope?
did you find out if it has slow motion controls? im interested in it also!
jbs68 No slow motion controls.
Hi, is this low power? If so, what is highest usable power?
rccrashburn this is medium power, 66x magnification, achieved with a 10mm eyepiece.
The highest usable power is around 200x magnification, if atmospheric conditions allow.
The highest power I've taken it up to is 165x magnification on the moon, and the image was clear and crisp :)
how would you rate the telescope? are there any limitations to it? What do you mainly use it for? Thanks!
Tanjil Muzahid It's a very good beginner scope, useful for observing the moon, planets and brighter deep sky objects. I would rate it 8/10
Thank you man! I got one. Still gotta try it though
Tanjil Muzahid you're welcome, I hope you will enjoy using it, clear skies :)
Planets appear as tiny dots. Plz waste your money
Strange I have the 80 az and get a much better shot than that
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Inspire models are bad. Flawed telescopes
Ask yourself, what do I want from this telescope?
If it's a gift for a child who may change hobby very quickly and be innocently unquestioning, then great.
If however you want to look seriously at planets etc. even as a beginner then avoid this telescope. Some sites describe is as a beginner to intermediate telescope - I would say complete novice. Like with most things, you get what you pay for. Essentially you are paying nigh on £300 for an accessory tray and smart phone holder. I am misguded? Seriously mistaken? Consider this: Sky At Night magazine gave the optics for this telescope one of the lowest ratings out of all the features it reviewed for this particular model (build and design, optics, asembly etc. etc.). Optics are important maybe?
Believe me I wanted to refute other negative reviews for this telescope. Then I used it myself. People say 'but it's a lovley scope!' or ' OK, so Jupiter is a small featureless disc and Mars a red dot almost - BUT you're viewing it from you back garden!! Ain't that great!' Not when you could save a little more and get a telescope with more aperture/focal length/go to mount etc.
Buy this scope and buy expensive eyepieces to try and improve it, forever pray for near perfect seeing conditions - to still see tiny discs and twinkles. Look on TH-cam for this telescope - you'll get flash commercials or user posts of views of the moon, and the moon....and of er..
of the moon. And to top it off, of the moon. A good telescope to view the moon.
Please, please I implore you, please refute my review with actual, unenhanced views with this telescope of Jupiter's cloud belts and possibly the elusive GRS, or Mars, or Saturn and the rings with Casini division. Why? Because I've paid for this and am lamenting myself. Realistically? Serious astronomy is still quite niche, so to see what I would like to see is expensive. An affluent individual's hobby.
Summary of telescope: A Celestron hustle.
Ramman Gautam Celestron Inspire is a bad telescope. Costly and poor performance.