Review on Discover The Wonders Of The Universe With Orion StarBlast 4.5 Telescope In Teal Color by Ron Damndjperiod

Many stores will try to sell you small telescopes in boxes that promise huge sights of the universe, galaxies swirling around, Jupinter and saturn the size of basketballs. Of course, they can't make good on those views, and worse they feature wobbly tripods and sup par optics that if anything will frustrate budding astronomers.Not this one. Orion's StarBlast 4.5 Astro Reflector is a cheap entry level telescope that features great optics, a nice, solid base, and its incredible easy to use. You basically unpackage, take to your backyard and start watching the sky. It comes with 2 eye pieces so you can play around with your magnification.I tried it on Jupiter and the Orion Nebula. At lowest magnification Jupiter is a very tiny ball of light, but I was able to easily distinguish the bands and it's moons. I expected this, but I was pleasently surprised when I decided to try it's max magnification: the planet looked great, didn't lose too much detail and it was easy to spin around the scope to follow it's movement.Orion's nebula looked great on both, and the scope optics allowed for easy splitting of the trapezoid group of little stars on the middle. I didn't have to collimate (fix the optics) on the scope, it worked great out of the box.Planets still won't look as big as basketballs :) BUT, they look sharp in this little telescope, and with it's ease to use, sharp optics and cheap price, it's hard not to recommend it to anyone who wants to get into the hobby. Clear skies!