Mid-range plossl eyepiece set (higher quality than stock eps, also comes with filters which is a must):. Slow motion controls are awesome, especially when you are at high magnification.

Achromatic objective lens delivers a fairly sharp bright image (although with some chromatic aberration), and the 900mm f. Is apparently also normal. I prefer reflectors over refractors, due to the fact that i notice less chromatic aberrations when us...  Read More

The tripod is decent enough, i use it in my mostly wind sheltered back yard on an old wooden deck, and don't get too much wobble out of it. The tripod it comes with is very nice.

Focuser mechanism is smooth, 90 deg. Cradle has a top mount which will accept a good scope. I plan to upgrade as soon as i can.

The equatorial mount that sets on type of the tripod is just way too much weight for this tripod. The tripod looks nice and is very adjustable but has a terrible tendency to twist from the head down to the legs. The problem is that it is so bulky and ...  Read More

The viewfinder and barlow make polaris 127eq an unworthy purchase for a beginner. Objects looks far worse than cosmos firstscope which does not include a collimation mechanism for the primary. Illustrations themselves are also not as illustrative as t...  Read More

One big problem for me, and one main reason why i decided to return it is bad collimation of primary mirror. Collimating a bird-jones is absolutely impossible due to this spherical mirror (which has a corrector installed to account for the spherical m...  Read More