Customer Reviews

Celestron Powerseeker 60 Square Telescope

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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

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.

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.