Meade Telestar RB-60 Telescope

For beginners this is a great product. The CD and instruction book was easy to follow. We were using it the same day we got it. We would recommend this to anyone

All I can say is that I read the reviews before this one and it said that I could see the ring of Saturn but I haven't been able to see them. I had a close look at the moon but I haven't had much luck with stars and planets.

Purchased "this" telescope for our 8 year old grandsons birthday. I did a lot of checking on the web and found Walmarts selection very good. I purchased the Meade RB-60 because of the good price and especially because there were great product reviews. The product is very impressive for a beginning "star gazer" and our grandson is having such fun with his gift.

I returned this product. Where you attach the telescope to the tripod is metal screwed onto plastic. The plastic was cross-threaded. It really was a disappointment, this was my son's birthday present.

This was purchased as a gift for my 8 year old son and it does very well. It comes with three different lens pieces, a 25mm lens, a 9mm lens and a x2 converter. We have developed a system in which we use the 25mm to find the object we want to look at, put it in the center of the view, add the x2 converter, move the object back to the center, and then change the 25mm to the 9mm for the closest possible view. It works well for us. We have had it only since the summer months, so we have spent most of our time looking at the Moon and Jupiter and four of it's moons. Jupiter, through this telescope, is about the size of a thumbnail and you can see the two bands of storms (stripes) going across the center of the planet. My only complaint is that not on the tripod, but also the focus mechanism are loose and you really have to be careful about even breathing on the scope to keep things in focus or centered. It is afterall and very inexpensive beginner scope, so I don't expect much more than that. We have had many hours of fun with this scope and I'm sure once fall and winter arrive and the object in the sky change we will have many more hours of fun with it!