I am so happy to have stumbled upon All Star Telescope during my online Christmas shopping! They saved me! Seriously I have the hardest tech loving kid to shop for and the digital Telescope from BeaverLabs turned out to be the perfect gift. Even better than the perfect gift was their amazingly quick customer service and lightning speed shipping during the Canada Post strike! I highly recommend supporting this Albertam company and this product!
I was delighted to receive a replacement scope mine suffered damage in a fall.
I received a purchase I made in Toronto from British Columbia the week before Christmas and received it within 24 hours after. Quite impressed.
These are the handiest little things for collimating. Being able to run two screws at once makes things so much faster. For a dobsonian just measure the thickness of the block at the end of your spider vanes if you're not sure of the length of **** you need.
Quality product, excellent wide view, provides good contrast. Only issue is the folding rubber eyecup comes off easily when trying to unfold it. Would recommend it without hesitation.
It's a great book for beginners. And it reminds you of all the major targets.
Product was received as advertised. Fast shipping, great communication.
Télescope de format intermédiaire très versatile. Qualité de fabrication remarquable et mécanisme de fonctionnement simplifié pour une utilisation optimale en astrophotographie.
Well the telescope seems pretty impressive but I was not impressed with the eye piece that came with it. It was underwhelming for my students in school. There's just one. Most of the skywatcher telescopes come with at least a couple. And for such a price too?
It assembled fairly nicely that was good. But the laser pointer seems a little bit on the cheap side as does the Star finder app which doesn't seem to work at all so pretty disappointed about that. Now that I've bought some other lenses it will be interesting to try it out when we get a clear sky.
ZWO Seestar S50 All In One Smart Telescope (ZWO-SEESTAR-S50)
Poorly made (the included batteries were rusted and the on/off switch didn't really work). Only the sun lights up, so it's not that different from a model that doesn't light up.
My wife and I purchased one of these for Christmas and we've been patiently waiting for a decent viewing window. We were blessed with a good 2-3 hour window tonight and WOW!! This thing does not disappoint. I wasn't painless experience however. The origin app doesn't play nice with our older Galaxy A7 tablet and often crashes or we get connection issues. It does seem to work better with our phones. It bugged out on us once when trying to reframe the camera before imaging and started looking for something at the opposite end of the sky. The clutches on the mount don't feel as smooth as the ones on my Evo 8 and there is more backlash on the azimuth gear then I would have liked. However, that doesn't seem to affect the performance and bow does it perform. This 6"RASA is something else. I could go on raving about good the it is but I'll just let the scope speak for itself. If an ape like me can take a picture like this on his first night out then it was definitely worth paying the premium.
The service and delivery was excellent.
The handle and waterproofing are nice but this is at the bottom of the list. The bounty hunter models are same price or cheaper, have better features, actually pick up gold, better battery options, are sturdier.
The Sky-Watcher EvoStar 100ED APO refractor telescope is an incredible value given all that's included with the scope. This includes an 8x50 right angle finder scope, a 2" diagonal, a foam-lined aluminum case, two handy eyepieces (5 and 25 mm) and let's not forget the 100 mm diameter refracting telescope with 900 mm of focal length. This 900 mm, f/9 scope is the perfect balance between magnification and image quality through the eyepiece.
The 8x50 finder scope is a perfect addition to this instrument, making targeting deep sky objects very easy using a motor drive mount or a manual mount. Aligning the finder scope to the main tube is a bit tricky. Having a little more room in the finder scope mounting rings would make the alignment process with the main body tube a little easier.
The dovetail mounting bar makes connecting the telescope to the mount very easy. The dovetail bar also includes two 1/4" 20 threaded mounting holes for mounting the telescope to a heavy duty tripod. This is very handy when aligning the finder scope to the main body tube.
The 25 mm eyepiece provides a very comfortable experience for causal observing. The 5 mm eyepiece offers 180x magnification with a very wide field of view. This was an unexpected bonus while observing Jupiter and its moons. At this magnification, the focus is a little sensitive. This is where the 2" dual speed Crayford-style focuser and the fine adjustment **** are really handy to get a sharp focus at these larger magnifications. At these larger magnifications the focus lock **** is very important to hold a sharp focus especially with a heavy eyepiece or DSLR camera under below zero conditions.
Using an additional Sky-Watcher 2" 28 mm eyepiece provides outstanding wide angle eye comfort looking at the Pleiades, and a host of globular and open clusters. The Andromeda and Triangulum galaxies offered an outstanding show through this telescope. Keep the magnifications lower for better contrast and to reduce eye fatigue. The contrast of starlight to the background is excellent with this telescope with no experienced chromatic aberration from a dark observing site.
The Sky-Watcher EvoStar 100ED APO refractor telescope offers outstanding quality for a really good price-point.
Along with the 4.0mm and 13.0mm DeLites that I earlier purchased — also from All-Star — I now have all the DeLites that I had on my ‘to buy’ list. I am very happy and satisfied.
Came as advertised and a day or two early! Would not hesitate to purchase from them again
Optolong CF (Clear Focusing) Broadband Filter 1.25"/2" Mounted (OPT-CF-125/OPT-CF-2)
Looks amazing. Haven't tried it yet, but will be soon.
Wow!…It’s a magical box…See Stars like a pro…
Unfortunately they don't come properly aligned and you have dig into holes to access the screws. Last thing I wanted to do when setting up a telescope for my school. I don't recommend this at all. These should be pre-aligned.
This piece is so well made. Haven't had only one viewing with it because of the weather, but it is a huge improvement over the pieces that came with the telescope. Well worth the investment - I don't anticipate any need to replace it ever.
Quick getting the order out and fast delivery! Still trying to learn how to work my star tracker!
