Celestron Powerseeker 60 Square Telescope

by Celestron

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 29 x 10 x 6 inches ; 9 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 10 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B0000D8G1H
• Item model number: 21046
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #56,517 in Camera & Photo (See Top 100 in Camera & Photo)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 8, 2003

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Try the Celestron Powerseeker 60 Refracting Telescope for a unique take on observing the heavens. Its innovative design and host of handy accessories will get you started out right and give you hours of stargazing bliss. The scope's unique square optical tube helps reflect stray light from your eye, provides higher contrast and makes for clear and steady viewing. Its rotate- able erect image diagonal is great for land and astronomical viewing. It comes with (2) 1.25 eyepieces (4mm and 20mm) and (1) 3X Barlow lens, that provides up to 525X magnification.

This telescope has a built-in compass that assists in terrestrial viewing and helps you get your bearings to locate skyward objects of interest. The aluminum tripod with German equatorial mount and accessory tray is rugged, lightweight and height adjustable, plus the tray helps you keep your different lenses handy. The included soft sided black nylon carrying case holds the entire telescope and accessories together for easy travel and portability. Other details include:

• Measures approx. 28"L x 3"H x 3"H
• 60mm objective lens size aperture
• 700mm focal length
• f/12 focal ratio
• 1.5X erecting eyepiece
• 5 x 20 finder scope
• Primary lens cap with tether
• Silver/black finish
• Comes with a 2 year, limited manufacturer's warranty

Product Description

The CELESTRON Powerseeker 60 will bring out the stargazer in each of us, and even serves the astronomical yearnings that lead us to search for heavenly bodies in nearby apartment building windows! Star Diagonal - Rotatable Erect Image Mount - Altazimuth Eyepiece - 1.25 (35x) Barlow Lens - 3x 1.25 (105x & 525x) Includes dedicated aluminum tripod with accessory tray and carrying case

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Too Small, Poor Mount, Useless for Astronomy, August 18, 2005

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kone "kone" (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Celestron Powerseeker 60 Square Telescope (Electronics)

This scope is not a good starter scope for anyone interested in astronomy. Here's why:

1. The objective is too small, only 60 mm, 2.36 inches, so it is too small to bring in the light necessary for even a beginning look at the universe. I suppose it is adequate for the moon, but that is it. The planets will appear as very small disks. One will be able to see Saturn's rings, but the image will be very small. Forget it for deep sky objects, clusters, galaxies, etc.

2. The mount is an altazimuth, which will not follow the celestial object in the sky. The earth is rotating, and anyone focusing on a star or moon will quickly find the object drifting out of the field of vision. A better mount is an equatorial mount which makes it much easier to track objects.

3. The mount will vibrate when touched, which will cause the image in the eyepiece to "shiver", which is very frustrating.

Even for the low price, don't be enticed by this scope; it has too many flaws. Save your money for a larger scope with a better mount.

Jim "Konedog" Koenig, astronomy buff

5.0 out of 5 stars Works great for the price!!, April 9, 2008

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Christopher J. Springer - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Celestron Powerseeker 60 Square Telescope (Electronics)

This is a great telescope for the price. Other reviwers act like this should be able to compete with the Hubble space telescope. Its a very nice entry level scope.
It only has a blury image until you learn about the focus knob. Once you can grasp the ability to turn a small knob, the picture clears right up.
It is VERY easy to set up and use. I will say it is a tad shaky on the tripod when turning the focus knob but thats its only down fall. The rotating lenses in the back make for easy magnification and best of all THE IMAGE IS NOT UPSIDE DOWN as most cheap telescopes are. This is a great scope to get your feet wet and test the waters of star gazing. If you are really into it go spend about $350 to 1000 bucks more to get one of those really fat ones. Would have said 4 and a half stars but had to round to 5.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars stay away from this.. please, August 18, 2006

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Ganesh Kumar Eswaran "Ganesh Kumar" (Bangalore, India) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Celestron Powerseeker 60 Square Telescope (Electronics)

A piece of real [...]. Never even think of buying this.

After lot of difficulties, I could finally point it to the moon. I only saw white light through its eye-piece as much as I can see with my naked eyes!!! The eye piece is so small, it seems as if I poked a hole on a piece of paper and watched a portion of the moon through the paper. And I paid so much money to see that [...]?

Then I focussed on a distant star. It just appeared as it would appear through a 4x cheap binocular.

Believe me, don't buy a telescope if you live in a city and have enough "noise" from other light sources. If you live in a country side, you'd better buy a better telescope and not this [...].

I finally sold it on ebay and bought a good pair of Nikon binocular. The moon looks awesome through the Nikon binoculars. Read my other review on Nikon binoculars.