Celestron Star Hopper series

[shaneaust]

Anyone care to rate/grade the Celestron Star Hopper series of scopes (any of them), as an actual user??

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[Blue Skies]

Are they still around as new, or do mean the old ones? I knew someone who had one and there were aspects I didn't like, iirc they only have a one-arm spider, which doesn't allow you to make adjustments easily. Optics were ok but nothing special.

[Starkler]

The new series Starhoppers had an ota sourced from GSO, so it was identical to those gso's from Bintel, Andrews et al but with a different base and at a much higher price.
With the Synta takeover of Celestron, I dont know if this is still the case.