| | |  | Galileo | Home » » Celestron 127EQ PowerSeeker Telescope | | | | | | | Description: | | The Celestron PowerSeeker series of telescopes is designed to give the first-time buyer the perfect combination of quality, value, features and power. Offering exceptional value, these telescopes feature portable yet powerful designs with ample optical performance to excite any newcomer to the world of amateur astronomy. | | | Features: | |
• 3x Barlow Lens
• German Equatorial Mount
• 127mm Aperture
• 1000mm Focal Length
• Comes with aluminum tripod and accessory tray
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 30.9 inches | | Product Width:
| 16.9 inches | | Product Height:
| 8.5 inches | | Product Weight:
| 29.65 pounds | | Package Length:
| 29.5 inches | | Package Width:
| 16.9 inches | | Package Height:
| 8.5 inches | | Package Weight:
| 29.1 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 29 reviews |
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 Good telescope for upgradingAug 18, 2010
The Telescope and mount are high quality, but the accessories it comes with are almost useless. The two eyepieces and the Barlow lenses are made of plastic and aren't fully multi-coated. The 20mm eyepiece is useful for terrestrial viewing, but is not threaded for filters. The 4mm eyepiece has a tiny eye relief so that you eye has to almost be touching the eyepiece, and it is the only eyepiece threaded for filters. Also with this eyepiece when you even touch the telescope it makes the image blur, to stop this get it aligned with what you are are viewing then just not touch the telescope, to let the vibrations stop so you can see what you want to see. The finder scope is useful, but will be knocked out of alignment by a small bump, so if you bump it during the night it will be very difficult to realign, and your are pretty much done viewing for the night. All in all my advice is to get this telescope, and also get some high quality eyepieces and Barlow lenses.
Nice big starter scopeAug 11, 2010
I purchased this scope to try to get started in some backyard star gazing and to maybe start a new outdoor hobby for my retirement. The scope is nice and easy to set up, but heavier then I expected, with the balance weights. The finder scope, and the 4mm eyepiece are useless. I have not tried the barlow lens yet but suspect it is in the same catagory as the finder and 4mm eyepiece. I have been using some Meade Plossl eyepieces I found on eBay, and it became a real telescope with the better lenses. It is really made well for a lowcost scope, but not really usefull until it is beefed up with some aftermarket accesories, like the Celestron start pointer red dot finder and I even had to modify the tube to fit it. I don't mind though because I have plenty of time to tinker with it and it is getting better everyday. I like it but I like my Meade ETX-90EC with autostar much better for quick set up and portability. All that said, it is a good bargin for under $130.00, and a great place to start, nice tripod, and equatorial mount very steady. with some help from eBay items and accesories, you can see forever!
 Reminded me why I got a telescope in the first placeJul 11, 2010
I wish I'd started with this telescope years ago. I've got several refracting telescopes including some of the Celestrons, but was never able to share my love of astronomy with my wife - the refractors were just too fiddly for her to have fun with. But with this simple, inexpensive and surprisingly powerful reflector we saw the rings of Saturn and the false "canals" on Mars the very first night. Delightful! I use this every time now for just poking around looking at planets and clusters or simply wandering aimlessly through the sky to see what I can see. It has brought back the fun. If you're looking for a way to share your love of astronomy with others, I absolutely recommend you get one of these.
Great scopeJun 15, 2010
Before buying this scope I read all the reviews even though this scope a some negative reviews I decided to buy it anyway. I am honestly very happy with this scope I can see how someone impatient can get frustrated with it but if you do not have patience then astronomy is not the hobby for you. Given that do not expect Hubble like images from this scope but I live about twenty miles out side of the city and so far have been able to se the orion nebula, lagoon nebula, M57 (the ring nebula), galaxies M81 and M82, Mars, Saturn, Jupiter, Venus , and the Beehive cluster. I personally am very pleased with the views from this scope but the max magnification for this it is about 150X. given that you will almost never be able to use the 4 mm eye piece mainly because of seeing conditions just aren't good enough. So I recommend getting anywhere from a 7 mm to 10 mm eye piece to add to this scope other than that this is a good scope and will show you some amazing thing in our universe.
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 Be aware customer service sucksJan 22, 2010
Customer service is not very good. I don't want to go into the pain I had getting a replacement part but it finally came today. This was a Christmas gift for my wife. The replacement part has a part missing to it!! I'm not exactly sure what is going on at Celestron. Just be cautious when buying their product.
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