Pros: Good Optics, nice mount. Excellent for the planets and moon. Cons: Diagonal is cheap. Not good for Nebulae and galaxies.
I bought this scope used over Ebay for $60.00. I started this hobby with a Konus 4.5" reflector that cost me nearly $200. I was getting frustrated with trying to collimate the Konus and also the Konus mount and tripod were pretty cheap.
Pros: Low price, not quite your average department store telescope Cons: Low price means low quality, wobbly mount, too plasticky
Telescopes are a finicky business. There's no such thing as a good, cheap scope-- either it's a good scope (or, if your scope costs as much as your car, a GREAT scope) or a cheap scope. This discrepancy is immediately apparent when one looks at the...
Pros: surprisingly good optical performance in a 60mm size telescope. Cons: Performance is limited to bright objects such as planets and the moon.
A previous review on this telescope was in error because the reviewer wrote about the wrong model telescope. There is a major difference between the Celestron Firstscope 60 and the Celestron Firstscope 60 EQ Deluxe model. While both telescopes are 60MM...
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