Came as advertised. Good quality. Good price.

Comes packaged in a nice dedicated carrying case. The classic white and red William Optics look is beautiful. Note that the telescope only has a 2" opening to mount your guide camera or eyepiece, so if you are using a smaller 1.25" diameter guidecam you will need to add a 2" to 1.25" eyepiece adapter.

The telegizmos 365 covers are great. This is my 2nd one for a new setup. The William Optics DSD bar also worked perfectly for mounting accessories on my 4 inch refractor.

High Point was very responsive to my email when I had received this case damaged. I really appreciate their quick response to my email. I received my new case within a week. The case is sturdy and works nicely to safeguard my new telescope!

Great

The clouds finally parted and I had the chance to put the Quark through a few tests. For the record I use it with a Skywatcher ED100 and Moonlite focuser on an AVX mount.

The Quark is a solid, well built piece of equipment. So solid and I had to rebalance the mount.

First, visually, the image was stunning even with my bad eyes.

The one large prominence today was clear and bright.

Most of what I do is astrophotography and I suspected the hazy sun wouldn't cooperation to let me get a few test images but I was very surprised how good first light turned. My ED100 is side-by-side mounted with my Coronado 60DS which I can now leave setup strictly for the disk. May even pickup another ASi120MM so I can have both cameras mounted on their respective OTAs and not have to do any swapping.

Newton's Rings are of course an issue with a digital camera. My current tilter works OK for the Coronado but they are quite prominent using the Quark. I never liked the tilter I have so I'll be looking into a better one but to be fair, I didn't even try to adjust it (too many clouds and a turbulent atmosphere).

Overall, I enthusiastically recommend the Quark.