• perfect beginners tele: The Celestron PowerSeeker 70AZ is an easy-to-use and powerful tele, the PowerSeeker series is designed to give the first-time tele user the perfect combination of quality, value, features, and power.
• Navigate the sky with our refractor tele. It features a yoke with a slow-motion altitude rod for smooth and accurate pointing. Adjust rod to desired position, then easily secure by tightening cross knob.
• ompact and Portable:This tele for adults and kids to be used together is compact, lightweight, and portable. Take the tele to your favorite campsite or dark sky observing site, or simply the backyard.
• Multiple Accessories: The Celestron PowerSeeker 70EQ Tele features 2 eyepieces (20mm and 4mm), erect image diagonal, finder, plus a 3x Barlow lens to triple the power of each. Accessories also include a FREE download of one of the top consumer rated astronomy software programs.
• Unbeatable Warranty and Customer Support: Buy with confidence from the world’s #1 tele brand, based in California since 1960. You’ll also receive a 2-year warranty and unlimited access to technical support from our team of US-based experts.

Product Description ------------------- Whether you’re an amateur astronomer or becoming more comfortable with using a tele, you’ll love the technology and user-friendly features packed into Celestron’s PowerSeeker refractor tele. The Celestron PowerSeeker 70AZ is a powerful yet easy-to-use tele. Our PowerSeeker Series teles for astronomy beginners have been designed with a combination of value, quality, power, and user-friendly features. They are built to enhance the experience for beginners but are also exceptional for mid-level experienced astronomers. This 70AZ tele features powerful magnification and easy-to-use controls that allow users to obtain crisp views of the Moon, the rings of Saturn, and Jupiter’s Galilean moons. The tele’s sturdy and durable yoke and slow-motion rod deliver smooth and accurate pointing. Move the slow-motion altitude rod in an up/down fashion to pinpoint and track your object. The 3x Barlow lens is added to triple the magnification power of the included 20mm and 4mm eyepieces. We’ve included an accessory tray to store accessories conveniently and a free download of our BONUS Starry Night Basic Edition astronomy software with information on 36,000 celestial objects, printable sky s, and more. The software can be used on your Mac, PC or laptop. It’s the best way to learn about the night sky and plan your next observing session. Additional accessories include a tripod. You can purchase this Celestron tele with confidence from the world’s #1 tele brand, based in California since 1960. You’ll also receive a 2-year warranty and unlimited access to technical support from our team of US-based experts. Tom Johnson founded Celestron in 1960 after building a tele to share the night sky with his sons. Since then, Celestron has established itself as the world’s #1 tele brand. Celestron teles are used by scientists in world-class research observatories and even aboard the International Space Station. .com ---- Celestron's value priced PowerSeeker 70AZ is an affordable entry level tele with some nice extras like a correct image prism and "The Sky" astronomy software included. The package also includes an Alt-Azimuth with adjustable aluminum tripod, high and low power eyepieces, a 3X barlow lens, and a 5 power cross hair finder . The PowerSeeker 70AZ comes disassembled in a compact box, but the fully illustrated quick set-up guide makes it easy to assemble. Go ahead and try it out in the daytime, that's the best time to align the finder while looking at a distant tree or telephone pole. The optics of the PowerSeeker 70AZ are surprisingly good, especially when I use the low power 20mm eyepiece. The correct image prism and the 20mm eyepiece give me a magnification of 35X, so backyard birds seem five times closer than with my seven power binoculars. The PowerSeeker 70 can be upgraded with standard 1.25 inch tele eyepieces. A 25mm plossl eyepiece for example gives a true field of view of almost 2 degrees for delightful views of star clusters like the Pleiades, while a 6mm eyepiece provides a magnification of 117X, just right to see the rings of Saturn or the cloud bands on Jupiter. The included 4mm eyepiece (175X magnification) might be too much power: I can see Saturn's rings but at 175X it's not easy to focus and it's not easy to keep planets centered in the field of view. The Alt-Azimuth included with the PowerSeeker 70AZ is lighter and easier to use than an Equatorial , but it does not track stars and planets. As soon as you get the Moon centered in the eyepiece it starts drifting toward the edge, this is caused by rotation of the Earth. The Moon may stay in the low power eyepiece for two or three minutes, but with the high power 4mm eyepiece (175X magnification) a star will disappear in only twenty or thirty seconds. Celestron's PowerSeeker 70AZ is a real value because it has very good achromatic optics in a package that's light, portable and affordable. The drawback is that it has a lot of plastic parts, including the finder and the 3X barlow. For a more rugged alternative, take a look at Celestron‘s AstroMaster 70 AZ ( http://www..com/dp/B000MLHMAS ) which comes with better eyepieces and includes a sturdier Alt-Azimuth . --Jeff Phillips Pros: * Very good optics * Correct image prism * Easy no tool set-up * Light, portable, and affordable Cons:* Light weight tripod * Does not track stars and planets * Plastic finder and barlow lens Moon as seen with the low power eyepiece, 35X Crater Clavius with a Neximage camera, 280X Planet Saturn with Neximage camera, 280X Deer over 100 yards away at 35X Birdfeeder about 50 feet away at 35X