As most of these sold won’t travel much further than living room to deck or balcony that is understandable. The only drawback to this unit is the lack of a carry case. It’s really easy to convert to cell phone camera use. Once fully dark, it was pretty easy to initially get objects in view. During the daylight hours, align the viewfinder, set the latitude and true north position (use a map app and compass from your phone). From there, It’s a two step process to set set up for use. It take about 45 minutes from initial unpacking (it’s double boxed and all of the vital components are triple bubble wrapped) to having the unit ready to use. Refer to the video for assembly as the printed instruction are pretty brief and require paging back and forth from description to parts diagram. I have another well known brand telescope and while it has more precise drives, some are plastic and have occasionally broke. This is a bargain priced unit so there are some compromises on the precision of the drives but all of the basic functionality of a much larger telescope is here. The overall quality of construction is pretty good, the tripod is stable, the azimuth and latitude adjustments are smooth enough and the optics, while not photo quality are pretty good.
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