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1 RECOMMENDED by 4 people for FUN
Celestron PowerSeeker 127 EQ 21049 (750 x 127mm) Telescope
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$102.00 Est. at Amazon
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  1. from www.telescopes.com
    5.0 Stars scope is easy to set up, less than 10 minutes, and tons of fun for family with kids.
  2. from www.telescopes.com
    5.0 Stars scope is great functionally.
  3. from www.telescopes.com
    5.0 Stars the finder scope serves no usefull function that i can tell and is not adjustable (as far as i can tell).
  4. from www.amazon.com
    5.0 Stars clouds aren't very interesting through any eyepiece, but it is certainly fun to play around with this scope regardless of the weather (except in the rain of course).
  5. from www.amazon.com
    5.0 Stars i got this telescope to replace my old 60mm refractor which had fungal growth at the objective lens.
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Positives: Optical Design: Newtonians, Finderscope: Optical, Mount Type: Equatorial
2 RECOMMENDED by 5 people for FUN
Celestron NexStar 130SLT (31145) (306 x 130mm) Telescope
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$415.00 Est. at Amazon
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  1. from www.telescopes.com
    4.0 Stars goto functions work well and for it to be accurate you need to use the 2 or 3 star sky align option.
  2. from www.telescopes.com
    5.0 Stars it's actually fun to use and does all the tracking and locating work for you.
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    5.0 Stars finding stars was not a problem and zooming with different eyepieces was fun.
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    4.0 Stars the goto function works as intended, and the large apperture in dark locales out of the city glow allows me to see deep space objects far better than i had hoped.
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    5.0 Stars we don't have a panoramic view of the sky from our deck, but the skyalign function worked great right out of the box.
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Positives: Easy To Use, Optical Design: Newtonians, Finderscope: Optical, Mount Type: Altazimuth
3 RECOMMENDED by 2 people for FUN
Orion StarMax 9824 Telescope
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$440.00 Est. at Amazon
  1. from www.amazon.com
    5.0 Stars the included software is also extremely useful and fun to use.
  2. from www.amazon.com
    5.0 Stars we've had a lot of fun with this little scope and i'm happy with the purchase.
  3. from www.amazon.com
    3.0 Stars this telescope looks good, and functions reasonably well for the price.
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Positives: Optical Design: Catadioptrics, Finderscope: Optical, Mount Type: Equatorial
4 RECOMMENDED by 2 people for FUN
Night Owl Optics STARRY NIGHT Starry Night Pro Version 6 ( Windows Macintosh ) Telescope
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$135.00 Est. at Amazon
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  1. from www.amazon.com
    5.0 Stars god bless and have fun.
  2. from www.amazon.com
    5.0 Stars identifying and finding objects in the sky and using the information to simulate the sky, objects, events, phenomenon etc is part of the fun for using such a program.
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Positives: Easy To Use
5 RECOMMENDED by 2 people for FUN
Celestron NexStar 102 SLT (200 x 102mm) Telescope
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$415.00 Est. at Amazon
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  1. from www.telescopes.com
    5.0 Stars jupiter's galilean moons show up as plain as day, the tracking and goto functions are intuitive and it's just a lot of fun!
  2. from www.telescopes.com
    5.0 Stars the 102 slt is way more fun than my other two, and the easist telescope i've ever used.
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    4.0 Stars then of course the computerized "go to" capabilities of the scope increases the fun by a tremendous amount.
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Positives: Easy To Use, Optical Design: Refractor, Finderscope: Red-Dot, Mount Type: Altazimuth
 
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