Starting with the positives - the quality lenses of seeing the moon and stars is what one would expect. I could see craters on the moon and way more stars compared to the naked eye. My kids were so excited to get this! My 11 year old was able to use it in his own with adjusting and locating celestial objects. Negatives: the construction is lacking. The thin aluminum legs have a height adjust or which immediately broke so now it’s always at the shorter level. See pictures below of the metal piece that falls out when trying to extend and then tighten the legs. The other issue occurs when locating and adjusting the telescope. It’s finicky in that I can get the item in view and as I go to tighten it, the item immediately moves often out of view in the lens. I’ve never used another telescope so I don’t know if this is normal, but will definitely take practice to adjust and hold without the item in view moving out of the frame.

The National Geographic NT 114cf telescope is a great for kids and adult. It comes with a smart phone adapter so you can take and share photos. It was alittle hard at first for me to figure out but once we did it was a great thing to be able to use. It comes with eye pieces and a power magnification for brighter and clearer images. The tripod has a tray to hold the accessories. This is a very nice and easy telescope to use once figured it out.

First of all, the instructions. What?! They are so hard to follow. I don’t know if I assembled it right or not, but I’m guessing not because it doesn’t work for me. I’m not able to focus on anything. Second, there’s a picture that says not to use your eye to look through, so is this only for phones?? I don’t know much about telescopes, I was hoping this one would be a good one for beginners since it was cheap. I’m returning this.

It's a $69 telescope and Very difficult to use: eyepiece is mounted at 45º off axis. It would be better to be mounted either horizontal or vertical. The elevation and train pivot points stick (design) which makes centering in on celestial bodies or following the moon's orbit almost impossible (telescope jumps all over the place). NG makes an upgraded tripod with motorized celestial drive for this telescope - but it can't be bought separately, and I don't need a 2nd telescope.

A little difficult to focus @ first, but now I’m enjoying it!

Nice product for the price

Bought it for my kids and I to use and it was super easy to use and set up. It’s a Newtonian style telescope so it reverses the image.

I purchased for my brother-in-law's bday. He, and his family, were pleasantly surprised at what they could see and the fairly easy set up!

I bought this for my son and he was able to set it up and begin using it quickly. It's exciting to see Jupiter's moons.

I dropped my Telescope bringing in from the porch. I am sure that I caused the mirrors to move. I have found a video that shows how to align them Haven't had a chance to do so yet, because it says give yourself time to get the job done