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Hardly ever used. Was set up for two nights, disassembled and boxed up. Reason for sale, unwanted present. Would love to have the space to leave it out, but with young children this is not possible. Needs to go to a good home with keen young Astronomer!!
Item specifics:
The Tasco Luminova 660x is a good
60mm beginners telescope, complete with all the accessories you’ll need to
study Lunar craters, Jupiter’s moons, and even the rings of Saturn. The package
includes a lightweight tripod, three 1.25-inch eyepieces (H25, H12.5, and SR4),
two barlow lenses, a Moon filter, a Solar projection screen, and even a program
disk that turns your computer into a desktop planetarium.
The Alt-Azimuth tripod included with
the Tasco Luminova package is light and easy to use, but it doesn’t track stars
and planets as the Earth rotates. It’s best to use the low power 25mm eyepiece
to find your target, then use a high power lens to zoom in for a closer look.
While “more power” is a
good advertising slogan, I have more fun with this little telescope by keeping
the power down. In fact, the best upgrade for this telescope is a low power Celestron 25mm E-Lux eyepiece (about 32x). The
Celestron E-lux eyepiece has a much wider field of view than the standard
equipment H25 eyepiece. A wider view means the Moon remains visible nearly
twice as long, I see more than twice as many Milky Way stars at one time, and
it’s easier to find deep space objects like the Orion Nebula and the Andromeda
Galaxy! As a general rule, 60mm telescopes perform best at magnifications of
120x or less. With a 6mm E-Lux eyepiece (133x) for example, I can
actually see Saturn’s rings or the pine needles on a distant tree branch more
clearly than I can using Tasco’s economy-grade high power eyepieces and
barlows. The high power 400x and 660x images are basically useless because they
are dim, fuzzy and hard to focus.
Overall the Tasco Luminova 660x is a good beginners telescope with a
generous accessory package. One of its virtues is that it can be easily
upgraded with better eyepieces. For a little more money, the Nexstar 60 GT is a 60mm telescope complete
with a computerized tracking system. In this price range, also take a look at
Celestron’s Firstscope 60AZ and Orion’s Spaceprobe 3 Altaz, which come with better
eyepieces right out of the box
Category: Cameras and Photography:Telescopes and Binoculars:Telescopes
Location: Maidstone
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