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from Amazon.com

…If you can catch this on sale for about $75 its an excellant scope. Regular price of $100 or so, its a good scope. ;) This is a good starter scope. The optics are excellant. The fine adjustment… 4 more reviews »

from Amazon.com

… laptop. Worked great and I was able to accomplish my goal for under $100.

This is a great inexpensive telescope that would be suitable as a starter or 1st telescope, worked well… 6 more reviews »

from Amazon.com

…This is a good telescope for starters. The assembly was pretty straight forward but I have found that the structure is not terribly rigid and the finder scope is almost impossible to set without…

from Amazon.com

…. To be fair, the Schmidt-Cassegrain systems they mostly sell are complex, but not any more than a piece of stereo equipment or an automobile. But time after time, other amateurs tell of how they set up… 1 more review »

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…As a newby to star gasing, both my wife and my knowledge of the night sky was pritty much confined to IDing the moon. We found the autostar system easy to setup and use (once we could identify… 22 more reviews »

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…As a newby to star gasing, both my wife and my knowledge of the night sky was pritty much confined to IDing the moon. We found the autostar system easy to setup and use (once we could identify… 53 more reviews »

from Telescopes.com

…I did a fair amount of research and comparison shopping before purchasing a telescope. As a novice, I'm really happy with my new NexStar 130 SLT. The setup was really straight forward…

from Telescopes.com

…I'm a newbie astronomy buff, and this is my first "real" telescope. I did plenty of research before making my purchase, and overall I am very happy with it. Image quality, ease of use, and overall…

from Telescopes.com

… a hard carrying case and more lenses. I would highly recommend this telescope to any beginner considering becoming more than a novice with the stars.… 78 more reviews »

from Telescopes.com

…Picked this one up late December for a starter scope. Had about a month to play with it, and so far so good. First off, this scope is great for the price. It has the largest aperture I've seen… 68 more reviews »

from Vanns.com

…. Not only was it super easy for a novice like me, but everything worked right out of the box. I was out that night so late looking at stars and planets that I almost didnt get any sleep for work the next day.… 1 more review »

from Amazon.com

…I am a novice astronomer, but have been recently invigorated and inspired by a trip to NASA Space Center Houston. (For those who plan to visit Houston in the near future, and for those Houston… 12 more reviews »

from Amazon.com

…In just few words..if you are a novice like me and never used a telescope before, and you think this is the time that you have to have one...let me tell you: I bought this telescope after reading so… 13 more reviews »

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…. It came without a detailed instruction manual making it difficult to set up, balance, and aim even for a mechanically inclined novice. The plastic finderscope was very cheap, blurry, and hard to align… 58 more reviews »

from Amazon.com

…. It came without a detailed instruction manual making it difficult to set up, balance, and aim even for a mechanically inclined novice. The plastic finderscope was very cheap, blurry, and hard to align…