Celestron 31045 AstroMaster 130 EQ Reflector Telescope
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List Price: $397.95
Your Price:
$189.95
-- saving you 52 percent
Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Height: 11.40 inches
Width: 18.60 inches
Length: 34.70 inches
Weight: 38.75 pounds
Model: 31045
Manufacturer: Celestron
Aperture Modes: 100mm-150mm
Telescope Type: reflecting
Model SKU: B000MLL6RS
Great Gift
by A. Tomlinson
from Carbondale, IL USA,
2010-02-11
I gave this telescope to my fiance for Christmas and he loves it. He never had a telescope before, but he was able to find things with it still, so it was "beginner friendly". Overall, if your looking for a telescope for a beginners, that is also high quality, this is a great choice!
Great for sky and land
by CP
from New York, NY,
2010-01-21
I gave this telescope as a gift for someone who has never had a telescope before and she absolutely loves it. In addition, standard shipping from Adorama was extremely fast--I ordered the telescope 4 days before Christmas and it arrived the 23rd. I was very impressed.
Nice Scope for the beginners.
by Sricharan Vemuri
,
2009-12-14
I bought this scope recently a month ago. I am really impressed by the quality of the scope. The viewing is easy and really good. The magnification is pretty good. I looked at moon and pretty impressed. The best part is you can purchase other eye pieces which I strongly recommend at a very decent price.
I would recommend buying a powerful eyepiece which you can get for approx $75 if you are planning on getting serious.
A great starter telescope
by Anthony J. Day
from Albany, OR,
2009-06-18
This was my first telescope. Let me just say that I'm very impressed with what I see. On my first night out with it I was able to see Jupiter and some of its moons. I was able to make out the red and white bands of clouds too!! It wasn't huge in the eyepiece, but hey, we're not using the Hubble Telescope here. I even got a good look at Saturn as well. Saturn was literally this big -0- and that was with a 9mm eye piece.
Now, I bought the accessory kit and I highly recommend getting it with this scope. I love the 32mm eyepiece for great eye relief and the 2x barlow even better. Don't plan on using the 4mm for anything but the moon and even then it's a little too much for this telescope.
The spotting scope on the top of this thing is a joke. I took mine off. I just start with the 32mm lens "aim" at what i want to look at, and then start stepping the lenses down.
All in all, I would recommend this as a good starter scope. Just point and enjoy. Who needs motor driven gps mounts that take forever to set up.
good optics
by Justin L. Schlichenmayer
from Bethune,CO USA,
2008-09-20
The optical quality is quite good, with a good field of view and very limited spider effect. The star pointer is fair to poor however if used with a low power lens (25mm or larger) it will suffice. Barlow usage is excellent and I'm amazed at lunar observation. Only other gripe is when slewing at a low polar angle you can run into the knobs. Mount seems solid however I don't care for the dec. setup. The focuser could stand a little more travel but is adequate for this scopes capability. Overall I give it 5 stars for lunar and terrestrial use, four and a half for planetary (excellent on Jupiter and Venus, struggles with Neptune and Uranus) but with some filters I hope to improve that. Deep sky is fair. The star finder I give a one.