Customer Reviews

Educational Insights Vega 360 Telescope

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Fast, easy ordering, and received promptly, but Not what I was expecting. Defintely a childs toy. Unless we are doing something wrong you can see the craters on the moon better by eyesight than with telescope. Stars can be seen, but it takes a lot of effort. Nontheless, my child likes

I bought the Vega as a "first telescope" for my 5 year old. I thought it would be fun to look at the moon and stars together. It was very difficult to find and focus on the moon with the scope. The view was very shaky and there was no hope of finding stars. We had a better view of the moon and stars with our naked eyes. The 3rd day we had it, the outer lens pushed back into the scope while my 9 year old neice was using it (I'm sure a great deal of credit for the mishap goes to her methods) and was irretrievable. Now, all objects are upside down and using the scope promotes motion sickness. I should have gone for a better built more expensive model that would have lasted longer.

For the price, you can't beat this "spotting" scope as my 4.5 year old calls it. It is lightweight and easy for your young astronomer to move around on their own in exploring outer space. We have shared many nights on our deck looking at the stars and moon and I'm sure we'll enjoy many more with this telescope. Enjoy!

This product gave the expectation of real, low level astronomical exploration for my son. Unfortunately, it's difficult to focus precisely, and rather fragile. The viewing eyepiece has too few threads to attach it to the telescope and stripped after just three or four removals and re-attachments. The various lenses could never be set up to really view the heavens. The whole thing turned out rather lame.

Did not realize it was table top tripod, but that was my oversight, although I was looking for a free standing tripod. Terrible quality. More of a toy for little ones than a telescope to use for real stargazing. I returned it for a refund.

My 10 -year-old was very excited to get a telescope, but he says he can see things in the sky better with his naked eye than with the scope. Maybe he just hasn't figured out how to adjust it properly, but he's disgusted with it.

I bought this for my 5yr old son and he loved it! The only down fall is that the magnification is not what I expected.....but it still works well.