My Name is Doug Hubbell and today we’ll review the Celestron Travel Scope 70.
I purchased the Travel scope 70 for my niece.
This scope would be a great gift for any child.
It’s packaged very well and within a few minutes you’ll have it assembled.
It comes with “The Sky X First light edition software.
The outside of the box recommend 13 years or older, I’ll be giving this to my nine
year old niece.
I’m sure this would be a great scope for any child, provided there were some initial
instructions, and warning the child to never look at the Sun.
This scope has a 400mm focal length, altazimuth mount, full coated GLASS optics, not plastic
lenses, 20mm and 10mm eyepieces.
It also has an Erect image diagonal, so you see images “right side” up, the finder
scope of course is “upside down”, which may confuse younger children.
The finder scope’s alignment screws are a little hard to adjust, but, it does the
job.
The 70mm views are terrific!
I was surprised how clear this scope performed.
The 70mm dew shield can be removed and while this package includes a lens cleaning cloth,
however, with coated glass lenses, it’s not a good idea to rub off the coated lens.
But who cares?
A child will get tons of mileage out of this little scope!
If they play around and have fun, that’s great!
This scope was only $59.95!
Wow, That’s A lot of Cheap Fun!
There’s lots of room in the backpack to store the equipment.
A nice zipped pouch can store all of your eyepieces and diagonals.
Soft padded straps with a mesh underside to help keep you cool when hiking with this on
your back.
The weakest part is the mount, lots of screws, untightening, and tightening to get your target.
If this mount had a slow-mo tracking knob, the travel scope 70 kit would be perfect!
I was able to see Jupiter clearly and I’m sure you’d be able to see Saturn and it’s
rings too.
If you’re an adult and wanted to get your feet wet with some casual observing, this
is a great little scope.
And for children I don’t believe you could find a better starter scope.
You could totally thrash this scope and learn some basics.
If you destroy it, you’ll only be out $60.
The Celestron 70mm travel scope comes with 1.25” focus tube.
If you purchase this scope and then become interested in astrophotography, you could
use this 70mm scope as your autoguider scope.
I highly recommend this scope as gift for anyone.
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