Celestron Zhumell ZHUS002-1 Z114 Portable Altazimuth Reflector Telescope, Black

Fantastic telescope. Extremely easy to put together...you don't have to do anything other than attach the eyepiece holder! You are advised to line up the red dot in the day with a distant object - you can easily do this in the night when the moon is visible also. Having the red dot is extremely handy for locating objects, especially at higher magnifications.Well packaged, as well as the usual polystyrene the larger box was inside another box for extra protection - my outer box arrived slightly damaged, but the inner seemed fine.Plenty of views of the moon, Jupiter, Saturn & stars galore, with more to see.

Brought this Telescope a few weeks ago and have been enjoying it ever since. If you are a beginner you will have to get used to aiming it and focusing on objects, and whilst this can be pretty frustrating at first, once you get used to this aspect it becomes more and more enjoyable to use.My advice is to get yourself a 'Barlow' lens, which multiplies the magnification of what you can observe, 2, 3 or 5 times depending on what Barlow you opt for. It's tempting to just go for the 5x straight away, but be warned, until you have sussed things out a 5 x will make objects harder to find and then to keep in the eye piece.If you have got a camera with a long zoom lens, you will know that finding, and then holding anything still at full zoom is hard to do. Telescopes are similar, in that you only have to lightly touch the scope for the image in the eyepiece to shake or even disappear from view. That said, you shouldn't really expect anything different with a basic tabletop Telescope; after all, if you had a couple hundred to spend you would be looking for something much more sophisticated. Maybea scope that found objects and tracked them for you! In my opinion this is a great starter Telescope, which is compact, light and very portable. It requires very little setting up - just put it on a stable flat surface, take the lens caps off and away you go.I took the attached photos with the scope sitting on an inside window ledge. It was fitted with a 2 x Barlow, a Moon Filter, one of the eyepieces that came in the box, and a mid-range Smart Phone (Samsung A51 5g). Took some practice and quite a bit of experimenting, but believe me if an old disabled fart like me can do this, so can you.If you buy one, I hope you master it and enjoy using it. It's a really good feeling the first time you point it at the moon, look through the eyepiece, focus it and and see the surface close up!

I'm a beginner got this scope could not believe it I saw the rings of saturn was a emotional experience and I'm now hooked

The telescope looks great and was to be a Christmas present for my daughter. There was no manual, so had to download my own one from the zhumell website. Sadly, upon getting it out of the packaging from Amazon warehouse, the casing is damaged. Really disappointed that a damaged item was shipped out to me.

This is the perfect starter scope, so easy to set up and use red dot gets you nicely onto your target. With a cheap phone mount and an iPhone 11 Pro I managed to get these pictures on my first time using. These photos are taken in a very light polluted area I’m yet to take it out to dark skies

For a quick 'pick up and observe' telescope it is great value for money. Easy to assemble, light and portable but with pretty good optics. Mirrors needed a little collimation, but that was explained well and easy to do.

The entire build is very high quality and easy to assemble, I recommend purchasing a 2x Barlow to increase magnifcation, the mount could be a bit better, but seeing as its a tabletop dob, It's great!

The telescope is OK, but the mount is terrible. The table top mount is made of chipboard and is simply a one armed lazy Susan. After trying to uses it, I gave it to a friend.