To right Colin , I got one of these years ago for a lark but a Celestron branded 50/500 . Exactly the same scops , pretty good optics but crappy mount .
I gave it to my nephew who was interested in astromony and it did indeed start him on this hobby , he now has the full use of my Chromocor'd Saxon 150mm f/8 frak on HEQ5 in NZ and loving it .
Yes a good starting point for $20 and without that little scope he would have missed out . He was a totally broke 13 year old then .
He has since passed it on to someone else .
Brian.
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Originally Posted by Colin_Fraser
I suppose if it gets some little kid with very little money interested in astronomy, it's not such a bad thing.
There are people out there that cannot afford more.
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