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

I bought the Orion Star Blast 4.5” Tabletop Telescope as a Christmas gift for my wife. It was easy to unpack and set up. The reflector telescope is a beautiful instrument. However, we could not make the EZ Finder II Reflex Sight produce its red dot. A call to Orion Customer Service resulted in receiving a new EZ Finder. We could not make that one work either. Searching the internet revealed many similar and highly negative comments about the EZ Finder II. After repeated phone calls to Orion we deduced that it is the instruction manual, not the EZ Finder that is the problem. The manual says to "slide the new battery under the battery lead with the positive (+) side facing down and replace the battery casing.” The word "down” is misleading. It is relative to how you are holding the EZ finder. The unambiguous way to state this should be "…positive (+) side facing the retaining clip.” "Down” is meant to refer to the telescope side when the EZ Finder is mounted on the scope. The positive terminal of the battery should face the telescope. When you are holding the unmounted EZ Finder in your hand to access the battery compartment "down” is actually "up”, and therein lies the confusion. I suspect that most of the problems reported with the EZ Finder are because the battery has been inserted upside down. There is no figure illustrating the correct placement in the manual. Orion Customer Support was friendly and tried to help. The manual needs to be corrected and made unambiguous. I hope this clarification helps future buyers. I give the telescope 5 stars and the EZ Finder II 4 stars.