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Thanks for the review, Peter. This very model is my current scope (till a Tak Mewlon 210 or 250 comes along, that is....)
My Galaxsee was a freebie, so I have no financial input to the thing- and thus a lower expectation of its performance - and seeing as stars are not dots, and the bigger planets' outlines are all quivery and somewhat smudged - that's probably a good thing!!!
Even so, it has shown up Jupiter's bands in fleeting moments of good seeing, and Saturn's rings can just be made out (I have only a 10mm eyepiece with my scope, so only have the one level of magnification available) Plenty of nice clusters and double stars have been seen through it, even M71 and the Coathanger in my (so far) fruitless search for comet Garradd. Nebula can be seen even from my suburban backyard, though there is no real color to be made out in them, sort of a greyish green mostly.
The mount it was on is a real wobbler, and I've put mine onto a Arca-Swiss B1 ballhead/Gitzo G326 tripod I had left over from my photography days. It is a real challenge to try to find something in the sky, basically try to point it in the general direction of wanted object and twist the controls here and there (and the back-to-front/upside down image doesn't help matters....!!!)
Even so, it's still plenty of fun - I've not set the bar too high - and when I get my Mewlon it'll be interesting to see the difference. My wife and daughters are impressed with having seen the moon up (relatively) close, planets, nebulae, clusters; just need to find them a comet to peer at.....
Cheers
John
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