Hi this is graham from jenham's astro. so i was planning to make an unboxing video
for my new telescope the celestron evolution eight and it's come in a very large box you
can probably just about see it here on the floor in fact it came in many boxes within
a large box so that's all pretty standard unfortunately this one hasn't got very far
in terms of an unboxing in as much as there's some damage to the corrector plate basically straight
out of the box so i'm just gonna show you what i'm talking about hopefully you can pick it up
so this is you can see there are some there's a sort of scratch certainly an absence of coatings
on the front of the corrector there's quite a lot of bits and pieces of other items i think
it's either scratches or just certainly marks on the inside of the corrector quite a bit of
quite a few flecks as well here and there on the lower part of the corrector so basically
this one is going to go back to the supplier and we'll see what they make of it a few other things
worth noting straight out of the box there's a few what i call scuffs here on top of the tube
on top of the mount and there's a few places where well the fitting's not exactly great
it doesn't look so good but isn't likely to have any effect on the overall performance of the scope
but basically for the price of this scope probably expected a little bit more quality control
okay so fast forward a couple of weeks i decided to send that scope back to the suppliers First
Light Optics they had a look at it and then they ordered me a replacement so here it is this one
comes with a new sticker certainly new to me clear skies guaranteed eventually which is i quite like
that as an update to their normal sticker so okay let's open up and see how this one compares
okay so worth mentioning that when you get the box it's about 26 kilos so
it's not really too heavy you'll be able to drag it around it's more that it's a bulky item
opening the second scope up immediately looks a lot cleaner it looks like a new scope with
no scuffs and marks and the optical bit the bit that we worry about most also looks a lot better
so thanks to First Light Optics for turning around the replacement scope hopefully this
one is going to be a good performer but i'll let you know in future videos so what actually
is inside the box well not too many pieces fortunately it's basically you have the tripod
the mount single fork mount and the optical tube assembly so three big boxes of substantial
stuff and then a whole load of accessories so you have a red dot finder which obviously you
need to align straight away with the optical tube if you're going to use it effectively
this one is nice and clean which is good
and then the small boxes well what do you get well you get an instruction booklet which uh
i guess could be pretty useful tells you the basic setup you get another one linked to uh the
hand control it comes with a hand controller even though you can obviously use this
scope with wi-fi to an app on your phone oil tablet this is the nexstar plus hand controller
which has a usb port on it and maybe slightly different version to the one that originally came
with the scope there are two eyepieces you've got a 40 millimeter plossl and a 13 millimeter plossl.
you've got an ac power adapter this scope charges its own lithium battery on board and i charge it
up last night and it took about six hours to the point when the the logo the charging light became
steady and i knew that it was fully charged so we'll see how that works out obviously one of the
big attractions of the evo range is that you can use it hands-free as it were you don't need any
wires to power packs other than that.. a standard one and a quarter diagonal and a mounting bracket
if you want to put the hand controller onto the side of the tripod leg so i'm going to try and
use it initially with my phone and the sky portal app and see if that works out if not maybe go to
the hand controller and experiment with that so okay hope it's been useful pretty short video
a bit of a hiccup fingers crossed second version of this scope is a good one and i'll let you know
in future videos hopefully it's been interesting and you can subscribe to jennifer's astro if you
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