Customer Reviews

Meade DS2070AT Telescope

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I have bought 4 of these telescopes for young people and the elderly. It is ok for looking at the moon, but little else. Telescopes must have APERTURE to be useful, and this little 70mm scope's objective lens is too small - try a DS 90mm scope which has much better quality and shows a lot!

In addition, the Meade DS scopes usually have only 0.965" eyepieces, and they are crap. Buy a telescope that uses 1.25" eyepieces. The DS90 has an adapter that permits 1.25" and even 2" eyepieces, which show much more sky when you are observing.

After much research and product comparisons, I opted to purchase this scope and I am extremely happy with my buying decision. The first night I had the scope, it was setup and in use! It was easy to setup, very user friendly and I could actually follow the instruction manual to enhance my experience. I highly recommend this scope to people who are interested in astronomy but don't want to committ to a pricey scope or complicated setup and use. Definately a great buy for a family also! Happy star gazing...

To be fair, I have never used a telescope before. I have, however, assembled many products using instruction manuals. I found this manual difficult to follow. It lists the assembly instructions in two different areas of the manual and each set of instructions were slightly different from each other. I had the same problem with the alignment instructions. The remote control is impossible to read while it scrolls. I couldn't tell you if the telescope is aligned properly, but we could not see anything with it. We managed to manually find a bright star through the viewfinder, but it looked much better to the naked eye than through the scope. We are very frustrated with this product and will probably return it.

Needed a birthday gift fast, so didn't read other reviews until after I ordered. Was unsure if I made a good choice, but ended up being very happy. Delivery was right on time, no problems with assembly and easy to use. I know it is not the most powerful or precise telescope on the market, but definetly a good product for the price.

I bought this telescope several years ago and was pretty excited to be able to have something to look at the stars and the moon with. I used it once back in 04-05 and then it sat in a closet until recently. I pulled it out to go look at the moon with friends and come to find out that the workmanship on the unit was pathetic. The focus mechanism was stripped so it would not go in or out without additional assistance, plus the Autostar unit wouldn't turn....it would move the telescope up and down, but not from side to side....pretty sad that I paid $200-300 for this unit and by the second use it was already worthless. Yeah you can use it manually, but by the time you focus in the lens, you've lost what you were looking at. Very shoddy workmanship.

No stars or other celestial stuff will be shown by the thing .... use it for the Moon, and forget the rest. If you really want to see stars, spend much more bucks. This will be great for my kids' kids.