Celestron Teleskop Advanced 8 Edge HD

Excellent optic in small package...still doing many experiments with EdgeHD CG-5 8. At first observation Of Messier 41 (also known as M41 ) is an open cluster in the constellation Canis Major. I would say it is pretty sharp to the edge and living up to the expectation. Sirius the brightest star very sharp and Orion nebula amazing. I have placed an order for Adapter for astrophoto and yet to experiment with other side of this telescope which I hope will also going live up to the standard. Diagonal which comes with this telescope is not so good quality and hope Celestron will improve on this and provide Diagonal 2 with 1.25 adapter which should be standard with such a good product. Thanks Faiz

This is my first go to mountIt is sturdy and easy to get the hang of. I bought this as a combo with the CR6 refractor. I cant recommend purchasing this combo unless you buy an extension of 6 to 8 inches for the scope to be high enough to comfortably view and for the scope to not crash into the tripod legs while slewing. The real problem is there is no extension available for this mount. If there were the AVX mount and the CR6 refractor would be an amazing combo. It took me two weeks of fiddling around with different weight schemes to make this package useable.

Great mount. Great scope. Together, what a pain. whithout added weight youre on the ground 50% of the time observing if you are not realigning because it crashed into the tripod leg. A mount extension beautifully solves every problem except nobody makes one.

I had a learning curve on the "goto" mount to hurdle. I don't find the menus and such to be as intuitive as I was expecting. Now that I have a better understanding of what the prompts are really saying, and I am intentionally avoiding certain of the choices, I am getting along much better. After doing some major tree trimming in the backyard (and a little bit more yet to go) I am now setting up on my back patio. It faces south so I polar align using a compass and the latitude scale on the side of the mount. It gets me close enough to view planets, moon, etc. I even spotted Pluto (I think). I suppose I can use the drift alignment method to get more accuracy. I might take it back to the front yard and try the 2 star alignment again now that I am getting along better. I don't plan to do much AP for now other than some brief satellite transits.

This is a great telescope . Loaded it on a eq6 tripod . very good image .