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First impressions of: Telescope.
Man those instructions are a little lacking, they just include an exploded drawing of the base and a couple pictures of the outside of the optical tube assembly. The base goes together ok, as long as you take your time and think about it. the scope and everything goes together fine. There is no details with the scope about the mirrors, alignment or even what that extra black thumbscrew does on the focuser (frosty?)
Viewing with it was amazing, I started to align the finderscope using the moon (with a moon filter on the 25mm eye piece) once it was approximate I turned to m42; I just could not wait. But as this is my first scope I don't have anything to compare the views to.
The eye pieces that came with the scope each only got a few minutes use as I wanted to try them all and it was late when I took the scope outside. The 20mm GS super view is a nice eyepiece, so far I've used that most, it was superb for staring into space. The 30mm andrews 80degree is a huge eye piece; again only a few minutes use as it was late by time I'd finished magnifying saturn, but the AFOV is great, images were crisp towards the outer portions of the field of view.
I'll write more on this when I've got a couple hours use out of each eye piece. maybe apart from the 6.5mm with truely sucky eye relief and the 9mm with semi sucky eye relief.
Best $750 I've spent in a long time (debating a certain diamond ring was better or not)
G.
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