Astronomy can be a lot of fun if you have the right equipment and enough knowledge to know what you are looking at. Last month I reviewed the Celestron

Compact easy to use first scope for beginners. Has limited room for growth into astrophotography, but can support small reftactors.

Low cost; light weight; good lumar images

Mount unable to do long exposure astrophotography; narrow field of view

I am happy my husband and I purchased this for our introduction into the hobby. The tripod is sturdy and well-made. The telescope itself is simply amazing. The included instructions made putting it together and getting it working very easy and took only about an hour.

This Celestron telescope is amazing! It arrived quickly and well packaged thanks to Telescopes Direct. Awesome product at an awesome price!

The Celestron Nexstar 4-SE has top-of-the-range stargazing features, such its StarBright finderscope, to more accurately locate distant objects. Its quick release arm mount, tool tray and computerised mount also make it easy to set up.

good bang for the buck

Tracking!!!

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This is a good telescope for money. It is light & have a stable mount. The mounted wedge is good for astrophotography, but not at the telescope's native focal lenght. Perhaps a piggy back DSLR will able to take a good astrophotography.

Compact; light

Aperature small; Maksutov cassegrain design not as flexible as schmidt cassegrain

I purchased this telescope because I am not that knowledgeable about the position of some of the objects in the night sky that I wanted to see. My old telescope was hard to observe thru and very frustrating so I wanted an easier observing tool.

Compact; Lightweight; Strong Construction

This is my first telescope and I'm very pleased with it... it's easy to set up, has a computerized 'go-to' mount and good optics. I've all ready managed to get a good picture of the moon (see image) and seen jupiter plus an open star cluster.

Durable; Great Features; Great Picture Quality

I can see planets and stars, great detail looking at the moon. I have not been able to complete the set up for the location/star finder.

smart system; a lot of options

smart system hard to set up