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Celestron 21041 60mm PowerSeeker Telescope
Recorded below are the product facts for the Celestron 21041 60mm PowerSeeker Telescope. Also where obtainable we have listed a number of purchaser remarks and discerning reviews for your convenience.

Manufactured by: Celestron
Part Number 21041

Product overview :

The PowerSeekers come with all coated glass optical components with for enhanced image brightness and clarity. The Newtonian reflectors offer larger aperture and greater light gathering power needed to resolve the faint detail of hundreds of deep-sky and other celestial objects.

All PowerSeekers come on either sturdy equatorial mounts for tracking the sky or collapsible altazimuth mounts suitable for terrestrial viewing as well as astronomical use.

The PowerSeekers come with a full range of eyepieces plus a 3x Barlow lens allowing an increase in viewing power hundreds of times greater than that of an unaided eye!

Review Celestron’s value priced Powerseeker 60 telescope takes a basic just the facts approach to affordable entry level telescopes. The package includes an adjustable aluminum tripod with an alt-azimuth mount and stabilizer a Kellner type K20 eyepiece a Ramsden type SR4 eyepiece a 3x barlow lens and a 5 power cross-hair finder scope.

The Powerseeker 60 comes disassembled in a compact box but it won’t take long to put everything together. Go ahead and try it out in the daytime that’s the best time to align the finder scope while looking at a distant tree or telephone pole.

My first view of Saturn’s rings and star cluster M13 in Hercules came with a 60mm telescope and I enjoy celestial viewing with the Powerseeker 60 to this day. The secret is to use the low power K20 eyepiece and only extend the tripod legs half-way. This gives me sharp and steady views whether I’m looking at nearby hills craters on the Moon the Double Cluster in Perseus or even the Andromeda Galaxy!

With a 1.25 focuser and diagonal mirror it’s easy to add better eyepieces. The Kellner type K20 eyepiece yields a 1.1 degree true field of view better than the Huygens or H-type eyepieces still found in many beginner scopes. Adding an optional Celestron 25mm E-Lux eyepiece is better still. With nearly 2 degrees true field of view the 25mm E-lux makes it much easier to find objects either on land or in deep space. The SR4 eyepiece is less impressive; it’s like peeking through a pin-hole. Adding the 3x barlow to the SR4 to get that 525x proclaimed on the box is peeking through a dim fuzzy pin-hole.

I’m surprised that a telescope this inexpensive can be this good. It’s good enough to show me Saturn’s rings at night or a Steller’s Jay at 100 yards during the day. In my opinion the Powerseeker 60 would be an even better bargain if it came with a K10 eyepiece in place of the 3x barlow and the SR4 eyepiece. Also take a look at Celestron’s Firstscope 60AZ; it’s only a little more expensive but it includes two useable eyepieces a red-dot finder and planetarium software for your computer. ?Jeff Phillips

Pros:

• Low cost
• Decent optics
• Accepts 1.25 eyepieces

Cons:

• Too small for serious astronomy
• Only one good eyepiece

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Amazon Customer Rating ->> 3.5 out of 5

This binoculars merchandise has been critiqued at Amazon and for your convenience we have recorded the undermentioned customer comments on the Celestron 21041 60mm PowerSeeker Telescope.

:This is a horrible beginner telescope. I guess this is why the price was so cheap. We got it for our 11 year old daughter for Christmas and she was so disappointed with it. We could not even see the moon with it. We followed all the instructions and could not spot a single object. What a disappointment.

The smaller eyepiece for finding the object you want is easier to use than the larger for detailed viewing but this is a very nice starter telescope for your kids.

Gave this to my daughter for her birthday.
She really enjoys it.
Good entry level scope for kids that’s not too expensive.

Not what he asked for but just what he needed. Loves the fact he can see onto the moon not just at the moon close up.

Highly recommended. They replaced a broken lens immediately.
Grandchildren Loving it! Thanks

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