This review is from: Orion StarBlast 4.5 Astro Reflector Telescope
I agree with all the prior reviews. I’ve owned several telescopes. In all honesty, I never planned on getting this scope, but I changed my mind the first time I looked via 1 at star party. As some of the reviews have mentioned this little guy isn’t genuinely developed for high power views. Nonetheless it does a decent enough job with it is 6mm eyepiece (75x) which lets you see Saturn’s rings.
Where this scope shines is wide field objects like the Pleiades, which are too huge to become observed in a normal telescope. I believe a prior reviewer pointed out a jerky motion when turning the telescope. I was able to minimize this by taking the lazy susan kind base apart and spraying Pledge furniture polish on the laminate surface to lessen friction.
The biggest “con” this scope has is that it needs to become set on top of a table so that you can get the eyepiece up to a comfortable height. Nonetheless this telescope still blows away anything I’ve witnessed in Costco, Wallmart, etc.
A single thing you should be aware of is you truly have to go somewhere pretty dark away from all lighting for this and any other telescope to achieve it’s ideal views. Ideally somewhere out inside the country as far away as possible from street lighting will let you enjoy much better views.
