I believe this fills a niche among people who simply want something to casually look at the sky a few times and then either put it away in a closet corner, or relegate it to the green circular file. Kellner eyepieces, 45* diagonal, plastic focuser, and many more giveaways of cost cutting. The one thing that really got my attention was the video showing a DSLR in the focuser. I have experience using DSLRs and Binoviewers in these design focusers. It can be made to work, but..... In my opinion, worth every penny you paid for it, it's simply an impulse item.

 

I've be come friends with a guy in my neighborhood who bought this about 6 weeks ago.

I don't want to insult him, so I am trying to tune it up, at least it's not a Bird Jones.

Finder completely useless, mount won't tighten on one axis, fixed collimation.

Slapped a Telrad on it, trying new bolts on mount, focuser still needs work. Finally saw the Moon.

But hey it's German the guy says and the instructions are in German so it must be good right?

POS, with a bad GEM and German instructions from China!

https://www.amazon.com/Telescope-Ne...mzn1.fos.17d9e15d-4e43-4581-b373-0e5c1a776d5d

I really hate doing outreach when someone just grabs something off Amazon without any thoughts, maybe I should just tell him he got ripped off.

 

But, but, it says it's a "Professional" telescope LOL

 

Most of these 'high tech' telescope mounts are only made by a small group of manufacturers so you see them appear under different names all of the time.
Most are sold for 1/3 USA pricing and are overpriced at that.

The traditional 24.5 mm (0.965") eyepiece was being changed to 31.7 mm (1.25") by the mid 70s and they were getting hard to find by the end of the 80s. Typical Chinese marketting, it must have been written by somebody from SVBony.
Unfortunate that even their okulars at that size would not fit a standard focuser.

I will not even comment on the glass...

 

Well as a doublet you cannot have a lens set made of 2 different ED glasses as there would not be enough dispersion between the 2 elements.
In a ED doublet you need a high dispersion ( usually something like BK7 or lanthanum) and a low dispersion from one of the usual culprits (FK-61 up to FPL-55)
Even if FK-61 is used the package pricing would not even cover the cost of a grade 4 ED lens.
Most likely a achromat.

It would be very interesting to put one on my test stand.

 

Oh well, physics is physics

Hopefully the mount works well for you.
With all of the new automated point and shoot astro cameras on the market today
it should do reasonably well.

I forgot to mention in my last posting that if you are looking for a double finder scope shoe, Orion Telescope has sold them for quite some time.

 

I missed that in the images of the telescope.
At least they made something to keep the phone centered on the telescope axis.

The Orion dual is popular with imagers as you can put a finder on one side and a small guide scope on the other.

Have a good thanksgiving holiday.