The short travel in Dec is a problem and the lack of balance for even an 8oz eyepiece is a hindrance.

tube quality of the Celestron 60mm f/15? - Refractors Optical tube quality of the Celestron 60mm f/15? - Refractors

It has only two single lenses, but apparently it was beyond the capabilities of budget telescope makers at the time to even space those two lenses correctly and use the correct focal lengths. My guess is that the baffle is about 29-30mm in diameter, but should be about 40 to 42mm at this position to match the max illumination allowed by the baffle inside the draw tube (draw tube baffle is roughly 22-23mm ID. With the planet centered in the view, everything looked very sharp to the edge of the field, which felt expansive and caught a good number of surrounding stars. Looks like there are some cheap and simple 65mm rings for Canon lenses with a 1/4-20 camera attachment that I could mount on a spare 4" dovetail.

The planets were not large in the FOV, but I was impressed with the detail I could see on Jupiter's surface and on Saturn's rings given my small aperture scope.

Celestron - PowerSeeker 60AZ Telescope - Manual Alt-Azimuth

Just point the telescope at any three bright objects—stars, bright planets, or even the Moon—and your telescope can orient itself with the night sky. I was a little worried about whether I would like this one - small exit pupil with my scope, small eye relief, small FOV, etc. I’ve seen this kind of lateral color when spacers are not of even thickness, and when the objective is tilted a bit to the tube.I bought the ST80 as a guide scope for my SCT and am impressed with the value for money that this offers. Yes, I figure the 7T1 for 129x with the 60 f/15should be about the limit for my eye before diffraction begins to take over--assuming the optics are diffraction limited and the color is nearly negligible. After a few minutes I could follow the long arms halfway around and see the dark lanes and mottlings. In the 1960s, Celestron’s founder, Tom Johnson, created groundbreaking new telescopes never before seen on the consumer market. I've had it out once, and it put up sharp, contrasty views even in average seeing with a fair amount of LP.

Sky-Watcher Mercury-707 AZ | First Light Optics Sky-Watcher Mercury-707 AZ | First Light Optics

Celestron Solar Safe filter technology is GUARANTEED SAFE for direct solar observation and has been independently tested by SAI Global Assurance Services. There was no way to keep liquid fromgetting between the lenses so I had to disassemblethe cellanyway. It comes with an image inverter prism, so you can see things the right way up (this is supposed to be used if you use it as a spotting scope during the day, so it's a handy tool to have alongside binoculars).Actually, it looks like it will have a 20mm eyepiece--probably the same one that came with the Travel Scope. Think I would rather get the other eyepiece from a different manufacturer than I get the first one from, to get a feel for the differences and maybe a better idea of what I like. As I went back and forth through focusI was rewarded witha textbook perfect,bulging-triangle diffraction pattern. I had hoped there was some sort of kit out there of DIY spacers with adhesive of common thickness so that I could try replacing the problem ones, but I didn't get much response to that in the ATM forum, so I suppose not. I noticed that the screws holding the objective cell stuck visibly into the narrow tube and were midway between the spacers.