Review on 🔭 Celestron AstroMaster 70AZ Refractor Telescope with Fully Coated Glass Optics, Adjustable Height Tripod, and Bonus Astronomy Software Package by Derrick Patterson

Most people like reflectors, but all those collimators just put me off. My AstroMaster is always ready to go, and that's important where I live (Southern Louisiana). Our weather is cloudy most of the year, so I don't have time to mess with mirror alignment when the sky clears. cloud bands) and Saturn (rings visible). This is also good for larger, brighter Messier objects like M31 (Andromeda Galaxy) and M42 (Orion Nebula). I suggest eventually buying an additional Celestron lens kit for it as it opens up a lot more options and the lenses are just better quality. Finally, I will comment on the tripod. I give this scope 5 stars despite the tripod. It's not that thin, it's pretty solid, but the clutch system makes it very difficult to mount it on a moving object and then change position as you move. To be honest I usually just mount this scope on one of my heavy duty video tripods and it works even better. There is a thread on the underside of the scope's dovetail mount that allows it to be mounted on a standard tripod and that gets me a lot of positive feedback.