Zhumell60mm Portable Refractor Telescope - Coated Glass Optics - Ideal Telescope for Beginners - Digiscoping Smartphone Adapter

The size and portable nature attracted me to this unit. It is sturdy for the most part. I did have 2 of the plastic knobs on the cellphone holder fall off and have to get a new one before my trip. It took me 2 YouTube videos to help me set it up and get it working. The directions only helped so much. I am excited to use when I go camping but I am also nervous that I won’t be as comfortable with it as I hope. Not the best for beginners but I bought it and I will conquer it

First off, this is a very complete kit. The telescope comes in a cloth carrying case with an internal divider...telescope and accessories go on one side and the included tripod goes on the other. Very convenient. In addition to the telescope and tripod, the Zhumel also comes with a couple of eyepieces and an adaptor for attaching a smartphone. My use of this telescope has been limited to viewing the moon and for this it is great. I was able to see quite a bit of surface detail and the image was bright and clear. I experimented with the phone adaptor; it is a little fiddly getting the phone lens to line up correctly with the eyepiece but works well once it is in place.Complaints? Not too many, as this is an $80.00 telescope and for this price, as I said, it is pretty complete. The instructions could be more clear and maybe including illustrations would help. The tripod is a little jiggly. Just be careful not to bump it. And it's a little short but that is a tradeoff to make it so compact. The sighting scope is not much use for the moon...it works better for farther objects (though the resolution isn't quite up to making distant celestial objects visible.) I haven't tried it on terrestrial objects but it might be of some use in that situation.Overall, this is a fun little telescope and might be just the thing to spark an interest in astronomy.

This is a good basic refractor telescope. I finally used it to see something rather than just seeing how difficult it would be to put together (it's easy)Pros:I saw good detail on the moon for a hazy night for the magnification, and decent detail on the tree branches when I was looking and trying to focuscomes with a relatively roomy carrying caseGood view-finder - I was able to find the moon with it and then fine tune the focus knob on the telescope itself to find the moonCons:The manual/user's guide lacks detail (very few drawings and if you don't know what the parts are supposed to look like, it's a lot of guess work or googling)tripod - while good, it's very short, especially when the telescope is tilted up near 90 degreesSmart phone adapter - while good in concept, the directions for use are inadequate, and it is too heavy for the weight of the telescope and tripod. It tends to knock it out of alignment with whatever you're trying to view.

And we took it to Joshua tree with us and trying to get it to even focus on a star was a mess if they would just send instructions that you can understand instead of all the technicality on a beginner it's not what it says the beginning telescope if it was they'd be smart enough to do step by step on putting it together and being able to see a f****** star

This telescope is amazing. I bought it for my 11 year old, NASA obsessed daughter. She loves it, and is able to identify stars and constellations. It was a little tricky for me to put together, as I didn't find the instructions to be very thorough, but once I figured it out, everything came together quickly. It was delivered quickly, and well packaged. Absolutely great for space obsessed kids - especially for the price!

I absolutely love this telescope. It checked off all of the boxes for me: easy to assemble, lightweight, compact, and clear views through every lens. I live in the city so I anticipated having some difficulty using this in my backyard, but this was not the case! This telescope has exceptional quality for a very reasonable price. I am also a big fan of the smartphone adapter. I am generally not good at putting things together but this took me at most 15 minutes to do so. I cannot wait to see how this thing performs outside of the city, I'm sure it will be breathtaking! I am very pleased with this purchase and would highly recommend to any other star gazers out there!

It's very cool! sadly I can't figure out how to set it up though! It was for my son's birthday ! I see someone mentioned u tube instructions. Can anyone recommend anything.

My girlfriend recently took an Astronomy Honors course and was always discussing the lecturers that she was learning. After she received an A in her course, I decided to purchase this telescope and surprise her with her own. She absolutely loves it! She says it is as good of quality as the ones she has on her campus. We love taking the telescope and looking for planets and seeing the moon. This telescope is great quality and is a great purchase! If you are considering purchasing a telescope, I would highly recommend this telescope! It is easy to use and the image is truly spectacular.

Está bien el telescopio, buena relación calidad precio. No acepta la instalación de celular Samsung. El trípode soporte es un poco frágil y lo hace algo inestable al tocarlo. Se dificulta fijar el telescopio en una posición se mueve al apretar los tornillos en la posición deseada.

Me encanto este telescopio, tiene muy buen alcance toda la familia lo disfruto mucho en el último campamento y tomamos excelentes fotos con él, lo único es que el adaptador para el celular es exclusivo para iPhone 4, lo bueno es que un miembro de la familia contaba con uno por lo que se pudo tomar buenas fotos, muy recomendable

Decent Telescope. Very easy to assemble. Just see the picture and follow. Took me less than 5 minutes to assemble. Come with a bag, so easy to carry.

Muy bueno, buena potencia y el soporte para el celular deja tomar fotos increíbles solo deben practicar.

Es muy pesado para su tripie, provoca inestabilidad, el celular se batalla para colocarlo