Review on 🔭 Celestron AstroMaster 130EQ Reflector Telescope - Ideal for Beginners - Enhanced Glass Optics - Adjustable Tripod Stand - Includes Astronomy Software Bundle by Amber Perez

About a year and a half ago, I climbed through private ads and came across a telescope for sale. As it turned out, he was small, in fact, a child, on a flimsy tripod, with a lens diameter of only 50 mm. Some evil force made me buy it. I have long felt a craving for optics and the starry sky, but, as usual, drafts often walked in my pockets and there was simply no choice at that time. I lived with this telescope for about a year, occasionally using it for its intended purpose, and then finally sold it, disappointed in it. And just recently, fate presented me with a gift - Celestron Astromaster 130 EQ, which I also took from my hands for only 5000 rubles. and even with an incomplete short-focus eyepiece (4 mm). The device made a positive impression almost immediately: a reliable and versatile mount, a steel tubular tripod, the pipe itself is massive, made of sheet metal. Having delivered it to the house, to the hut, he immediately began to study all the subtleties and features of this truly monster, looking forward to the night. The clock struck the long-awaited time of day and I took the telescope out to the lodge. There were a lot of impressions. Through the eyepiece, a whole scattering of stars was observed, as if sugar or salt were scattered on the table, when using the most powerful eyepiece, the stars were luminous peas on a black background, and the moon simply did not fit into the field of view, but with the help of subtle movements, I managed to take a real walk around the surface of our satellite. I read on the Internet about the numerous shortcomings of this model, but I personally did not identify them, in the end everything is relative, someone will be satisfied with weak Chinese binoculars, and someone will find the stationary observatory to be nonsense. Summing up, I will say that my dream of a good amateur telescope has finally come true. At the moment, in addition to the three available eyepieces, I ordered a 2x Barlow lens.