It made a wonderful gift for a 68-year-old, budding astronomer. She's all a-twitter! Tonight, we're driving out to the countryside to catch a couple of events. She's honestly thrilled, and I sure look like a hero for giving her this set for Christmas. Thanks for making it available.

I have used the equipment one night and had a great experience.

The Bogue adapter works perfectly with both my Tele Vue scopes. The Tv-85 clamshell and the TV -np127 rings. Nice product.

I bought this particular telescope after an extensive research into size, portability and cost. This is big enough to be an excellent scope on the cusp of portability. I am a well seasoned astronomer and astrophotographer so this is not my first scope and doesn’t have the multi role capacity that all my other components have. As it comes with the

bonus of six months of clouds I have not had yet a chance to use it, I will submit an update when I’ve used it in its native form

Having done astrophotography for years, my age caught up with me and the thought of setting all the equipment up, polar aligning and staying up alll hours started to loose its appeal. I saw this scope and up front the pictures you get are not the best. Having said that they are not that bad. What I love is the ease of setup. Turn it on link to you

r mobile device point a a group of stars hit a button on the app and its aligned. No need to find Polaris or do anything with polar alignment. It uses plate solving for alignment. I found it to be very acturate and always found my object and placed it dead center. Litterly I was able to start imaging within 5 minutes. What I love is its light and self contained. I can take the scope and tripod outside in one trip. No need for cables power supplies etc. The pictures like I said are not up to the quality you’ll find on the internet but they are not bad and I managed to capture about 6 different targets in one night. Something that would have taken much longer maybe managing one object per night. Love this scope and it gets me out at night way more frequently than if I dragged all the other equipment out. Over all happy. with the purchase, and being so portable I can take it easily to other dark sights. I also puchased the case and it does not disappoint. Well make and makes traveling with the scope a breese.

A little funky, but it works.