Bought this to use with an AZ-GTI mount as a grab and go system - both at home and when away under darker skies than we get in Bristol. Both sit nicely on a heavy duty photo tripod.

The telescope looks very well made, fits well in it's case, feels as if it will be very secure when carried about. Impressed by the telescopes' lightness. The focuser was better than I expected, very smooth and feels solid. DSLR photography definitely an option. I really like the screw in lens cap, much better than the plastic one on my ED120

As per Flo's promise, it came very quickly with just a touch of light snow the day after and not a star visible in the sky since it arrived - how do they do it?

So I have examined a number of distant TV arials through a variety of eyepieces/barlows from about 13x to about 200x and I am impressed by how easily it focusses and how sharp the view is. I think that there is a tiny amount of fringing at the highest magnifications, but I'm looking at a small grey object against a grey background at anything up to 200m away in conditions that can only be described as murky. I think that it will be just the job as a portable lunar and wide field instrument. It'll be practical to leave it set up in the garage so that I can walk it out for a quick look at something thats in the sky when the conditions or the time I have available make putting up a bigger scope/mount pointless.

So very pleased, though it would be possible if I felt mean to dock a half star for the very short dovetail bar and the not very nice visual back, both of which I have replaced

The shipment from UK to Sweden was like Speed of Light..ordered friday morning got wednesday at 12am, beat that!

Items well packed, waiting for clear skies and other parts. camera rotator. I highly recommend flo.

This is a beautifully made scope, really sharp and with good contrast.

Superb telescope . It is giving great widefield images of Deep sky objects like NGC7000 and IC1396. Perfect guiding with the Evoguide50 guidescope.. Exposures of up to 10 min or more are now possible On my NEQ6 Pro mount. Overall a great little scope .. I highly recommend it....

Having limited opportunity to use the scope due to foul weather, at last I got a chance to image NEOWISE. With a DSLR attached focusing was way easier than with my various camera lenses. Tracking on a Skywatcher Star Adventurer I took a series of 20 seconds subs. The result, when stacked, was amazing. I also took a couple of shots of the double cluster. As well as being incredibly sharp the stars exhibited their colours clearly! The weather has closed in once more but I can't wait to get imaging again with this amazing little scope.

I've not tried it out yet due to nights being too bright and doesn't get dark enough here durening the summer months. This little telescope is light weight and small that makes it very portable telescope for those who like travelling around. It can even go in backpack for camping under a clear dark sky well away from street lights and light pollution. I found out this little telescope can photograph the horsehead nebula in Orion! Telescope feels well made and my only complaint is the dovetail bar is too small as it should come with larger one when bought new and this the reason why I give 4 stars. First light optics is superb and they deliver fast and when you need advice they help you!

Package arrived well packaged protecting case and scope. The day went well and night skies were clear but summer solstice in London was not ideal conditions. Saturn and Jupiter rose after midnight. With 8mm plus Barlow I saw cloud bands on Jupiter plus 5 planets and Saturn with rings plus 1planet - it blew my mind. Never have I seen such clear views. As a relative newbee I feel a pro now. Now where's those nebula?

Fantastic value for money! It is a great wide-field grab and go telescope.

i have a skywatcher 200pds and i wanted a small refractor, after lots of reading i settled on this amazing scope, i bought this in December last year and it hasn't let me down.
i'm not sure what it is like for visual as both scopes are used for Astrophotography but for what i need it for it is great.