To be honest the weather where I live hasn’t been cooperating with me. Today is March 31st and we are expecting a blizzard, lol. The instructions are really light and hard to read/understand. It took me a really long time to see anything through the lens. The camera holder would not stick to my phone case. It is a cool idea to put the phone up to it to see better and for sharing with friends.

On our first use, we were able to see Neptune. Worked beautifully. Using Google's free Sky Map app helped to identify it's location in the sky. Being that it was our first telescope, it took a little getting use to on knowing how and when to focus in or out but figured it out eventually. Basically, you want to zoom the focus in all the way but use the widest lens to find and center the object. Then switch to the more powerful lens and zoom the focus back out.

I am an amateur astronomer. I thought i could use this small light weight reflecting telescope with a 4.5" parabolic mirror as a grab-and-go scope. I am dealing with lower back issues and am unable to use my much larger and heavier 12" SkyWatcher flextube dobsonian reflector telescope right now. The problem i had with this National Geographic NG114mm telescope is that the focuser is of such low quality that i was unable to collimate the mirrors with a laser collimator in order to even bring Jupiter or Saturn into focus. If you plan on using this telescope for terrestrial viewing, it will work fairly well. Just know that the image you will see at the eyepiece will be upside down and reversed. An image rectifier eyepiece will fix this issue. I do not recommend this telescope for astronomical use.

East assembly and set up. Tricky with the smartphone adapter but as long as you hold onto your phone you should be fine. My 10 year old loves it and is wanting to play outside more. Highly recommend

This Telescope is awesome. We've enjoyed seeing the bright, clear images of the moon, some planets, numerous star clusters, while just having family fun! This has a great nighttime view that is easy to focus and maneuver to see everything the kids want to see from our own back yard.

You can see a lot of stuff that stands out on the moon looking through it I had a problem hooking my camera to it and getting any kind of picture

Great perfect just what i needed to see the beautiful stars. It is also easy for the kids to use this would make a great gift. I would recommend looking at all the parts to make sure you know exactly what you need to use for each.

The new Telescope had been previously used, scratched, broken, returned and then sent to me. I bought it on sale so it was a decent price for an amateur scope. Whenever, you adjust the scope where you want it and then tighten it down it, it changes to position of scope.

I cannot see anything but blur.

Excellent product--does just what it says it will do