Review on 🔭 Celestron PowerSeeker 70EQ Telescope - Compact and Portable Manual German Equatorial Telescope for Beginners with Bonus Astronomy Software Package - 70mm Aperture by Shedrick Roach

Please read! It only takes a few minutes! Great telescope for beginners! If you're a pro, definitely don't buy unless you're looking for something to wear around town. But if you're a beginner looking to get into astronomy and have a budget of $100, this telescope might be for you. I'm only giving it four stars because some of the controls are hard to turn and the parts you need to turn are cheap plastic. Also, a thinner scope is crap. I haven't checked but I'm sure you can get stronger parts like a finder. Very easy to assemble, I did it in less than 7 minutes. But the last drawback was that there was no bag. Sometimes it's impractical to carry a telescope alone and you need to find a zippered pocket for extra parts you're not using. You have to do a few trips back and forth to get everything if you are alone. So I recommend taking a bag with you. Which I also recommend reading the instructions. Not only an installation guide, of course, but also a complete manual (it's only about ten pages, nothing special). The manual contains a lot of useful material, e.g. B. on how refractors and reflectors work and on the construction of a finder scope. I went out tonight and saw bright and clear Venus, Polaris, Pollux and Caster and even a vortex galaxy which I believe was M51. Therefore ideal for beginners and I can 100% recommend this product.