🌠 Discover the Universe, One Star at a Time!
The National Geographic Compact Telescope 114/500 is a beginner-friendly Dobsonian telescope designed for amateur astronomers. With a 114mm aperture and a 500mm focal length, it offers impressive magnification capabilities ranging from 25x to 167x, making it ideal for observing celestial objects. The package includes essential accessories such as eyepieces, a 2x Barlow lens, a moon filter, and an LED finder, all housed in a compact and portable design.
| Package Dimensions L x W x H | 56.6 x 31.4 x 30.6 centimetres |
| Package Weight | 4.83 Kilograms |
| Product Dimensions L x W x H | 28 x 28 x 52 centimetres |
| Item Weight | 3 Kilograms |
| Brand | National Geographic |
| Colour | black |
| Included components | telescope, 2 eyepieces (6 mm, 20 mm), Barlow lens 2x, moon filter, LED finder, software |
| Max Focal Length | 500 Millimetres |
| Min Focal Length | 114 |
| Model year | 2013 |
| Objective Lens Diameter | 76 Millimetres |
| Part number | 9065000 |
| Size | Standard |
| Telescope Mount Description | Altazimuth Mount |
| Focus type | Manual Focus |
| Guaranteed software updates until | unknown |
A**R
Honest opinion 👍
Only ever used a small 70mm celestron before now and bought this national geographic 114/500 telescope for my niece's for Christmas... I tried it out and it's far better than my 70mm celestron.... Build is very plastic but don't let it put you off as the close up viewing of the moon was really good.... Really good beginners telescope 🔭🪐☄️🌠🌛👽
I**.
Three Stars
for the price it is ok one point is the it is verry unstable and stiff to move
A**M
Just a children's toy
A children's toy. That is all. if you want to get more serious stuff for astronomy, get an 150" aperture reflector telescope as minimum. it is frustrating to watch planets with small size and no signs of deep space views. This is my beginner opinion.
K**S
Not worth the money
Mount too stiff in the horizontal. No bearing between scope base and stand. Just two disks of wood rubbing against each other.Finderscope cheap. Plastic eyepiece focusser loose and cheap. Optics not bad but overall it could have been made much betterwith better materials.
M**E
Hmm
Purchased to view Neowise.Not as easy to use as described, couldn’t see any stars through it, it was able to distinguish light from dark though.1 star as it was sent back and refunded without issue.
M**N
Four Stars
As this is a present I cannot completely review it.
D**K
Avoid, much better options at this price range
This has a spherical mirror (newtonian telescopes need a parabolic mirror to focus light at a single point), so the optics are not good and, even worse, features a 6mm Symmetric Ramsden eyepiece, which was state of the art in the late 18th century and a 20mm Huygens eyepiece which was an excellent piece of kit in the 1600s when Christian Huygens invented it. If it was not obvious, you'll need new eyepieces and since the optics are not great either why not buy the similarly priced but much superior (optics and eyepieces) Heritage 100P for example?
A**R
Disappointing
Not easy to set up. Numerous YouTube videos, hrs spent outside trying to use it and it’s terrible. Can’t see anything. Window of return has unfortunately passed, otherwise would be returning.
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