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Pros & Cons
Pros
Orion 90mm mak-cass is a fantastic portable spotting scope. The mak-cas design allows you to get a much longer focal length that you would with a normal reflector.
Overall it's still very usable. One or two caveats to be aware of, though. My only comment on the included tabletop base is that while it's nicely constructed, i don't use it.
Viewing the moon is like looking out a window of a ship orbiting it. There is no false color, and the lunar features have impressive detail. With the 10mm individual craters can be picked apart.
This one comes with a 25mm (50x magnification) and 10mm (125x magnification). The supplied eyepieces seem to be of good quality. The lowest magnification eyepiece that comes with the scope (25mm) gives a magnification of 50x.
Ez finder ii makes it extremely ez (ha ha) to find objects. The hardest thing you have to do is aligning the finder.
Cons
Also the dovetail bar was mounted upside down on this unit as well.
Highlights
Quality
The build quality is wonderful for what you pay
But somewhat of a testament to very good optical quality for the money
It was very 34spongy34 compared with the direct mechanism on my newtonian i also had some focal aberration at the edges
I do not use it with the table top mount but instead purchased a vista explorer 60inch lightweight tripod from amazon and mount... Read More
Price
You wont do better for a starter or pack along portable and cost
Packaging/appearance
Came with a broken thumb screw out of the box
Competitiveness
As a beginner in skywatching im very pleased with my puchase of this telescope
I can fit the optical tube the mount a travel tripod a dolica tx570b150sl and all the accessories i need in a 2034 x 1034x 734 ... Read More
I use a dolica ultra compact travel tripod with the starmax and its usable but you have to give the scope a few seconds to stab... Read More
I am going to get a pair of 10x50 binoculars to quickly scan the sky to find them
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- This product had a total of 360 reviews as of our last analysis date on Dec 13 2023.
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Trying to view saturn but so far not clear nights when saturn is visible here
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Hard to use and not as powerful as expected
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I contacted orion who says 34the dont stock replacement parts34
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Standard mount not bad but there is the issue of seeing objects that are higher in the sky
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Don’t use the tabletop mount found it to be too unstable
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Mount it directly to a tripod instead
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