National Park Foundation ExploraScope 60AZ Telescope

This telescope is awesome! I got it for my boyfriend who loves astronomy and was worried it wasn’t going to work well, but it truly works perfectly! We have been able to see the moon in such detail!

Got this as a gift for my son. He loves it. Easy to use and move around.

Really good telescope, the magnification and focus are both as good as I wanted. Haven't been able to look at much because of the time of year, but I've been able to look at the moon in fantastic detail as well as seeing some clear definition in Saturn's rings. Only real issue is the tripod. In high magnification, even light touches to the telescope shake the field of view significantly (although it ends up pointed at the same spot). And of course it's a locked tripod that doesn't track with objects in the sky, so things pass out of the field of view quickly enough. Otherwise, though, I have greatly enjoyed the telescope!

Just opened today, so have not used it much yet. It was easy to assemble and it is easy to move.

I really enjoy looking at the universe.

Very easy to assemble and set up.

fun

I got this scope as a gift from a friend, as I recently develop little interest in sky gazing. Right after received I opened the box. Found three boxes inside; two were long and one was little square. I decided to go for the smaller one first and I found one 3 X Barlow lens along with two eyepieces of 20mm and 4mm respectively. And there was a compass and a little LED torch and one black piece with L shaped tube inside that I don’t know the name, and yeah one more thing was there a laser pointer, something similar that fits on a rifle usually for aiming.It was my first time touching a telescope and I was overly excited. Immediately I opt to open the second box and you know what I found? A black solid built preassembled tripod stand with superb finish.In the third long box there was a mate green military coloured tube tightly closed from both end and all my joy quickly vanished after realizing that all I have to assemble by myself which is the most difficult task for me, anyhow I decided to start with the tube and try to look through it, I noticed a big black spot on the lens which I tried to wipe with supplied cloth but my bad luck it was somewhere inside.I opened and cleaned it but discovered some smudges of finger on the other lens too which needed a + screwdriver to open it. I did what I could (MY BEST) and fixed it again, now the vision was less blurred comparatively and without that big black spot. Then I tried to mount Barlow lens along with 20mm which I did successfully and my next task was to mount and align the laser view finder with the help of instruction manual but I failed. I was stuck on alignment level but thought I could see at least something through it during the day time without using the view finder, but luck wasn’t with me, after mounting all as per diagrammed instructions I wasn't able to see anything at all. May be I did something wrong in mounting procedure, but am pretty sure that it will work with little help from my friend.Supplied accessories did not please me though as Barlow lens and eyes pieces seems a compromised quality, but telescope and stand both are very well built and once this tube start working I will replace both eyepieces and the Barlow.I personally like this telescope very much and gladly update my review and share once start watching through it.[30-11-2015] I have some advancements now and I have seen craters of Moon with 20mm eyepiece but the 4mm piece is not very clear, barrlow is also not usable, so I have ordered a zoom eyepiece which I hope will give me some more joy and I will able to see something else apart from moon