Travel Scope 70 Review

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A quick review and video showing bits and bobs of the Celestron Travel Scope 70

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[spaceisgood1]

hi, im just getting into astronomany and i was wondering which would be better, celestorn firstscope, or celestorn travel scope 70? if you could reply it would mean alot thanks. :)

[theinvertedhourglass]

@spaceisgood1 I would definitely recommend this over the firstscope for a beginner if they are roughly the same price. This one has the advantage of not showing the image upside down and back to front which is very helpful when you are starting out, but in general it is just of a higher quality and I tend to get better clarity using the Travel Scope. The only thing that lets it down is the flimsy tripod. Hope that helps, Dan.

[Gipseemagic]

I want to buy my first telescope, should I get this or the firstscope? On the celestron website it says that the travelscope has a 70 aperture, and the firstscope has a 76 aperture. Will the small change matter?

[theinvertedhourglass]

@Gipseemagic Personally I can't tell any difference in the image brightness but the first scope does show everything upside down and back to front whereas the TravelScope shows things in the correct way which to me puts the TravelScope as the clear leader for a beginner scope, also the fact that it is tripod mounted makes it much better for taking outside, So I give the TravelScope 70 a big thumbs up!

[MrEmperor79]

You say it gives you a magnification of 20 and 40 times? Yet at Celestron website it says it's 165 times magnification.

[theinvertedhourglass]

@MrEmperor79 Yes, the number on the celestron site is as I understand the maximum useful magnification possible if you have the right eyepieces, The figures I mention are the magnifications possible with the eyepieces that were supplied, I also use a 4mm eyepiece to gain 100x magnification, hope this helps, dan.

[zwarrich]

hi thanks for the review. can we add dslr camera to it with the help of T-mount and if we can does it show good result with its cheap optics

[theinvertedhourglass]

@DicardedMusic ....continued... Speaking of the moon a moon filter may be helpful to help show more contrast on the different areas of the moons surface, but I wouldn't say either of these things are necessary as the scope is already capable of great views and showing thousands more stars in the night sky than the naked eye can see so there is plenty to see with it right out of the box! Hope that helps, Dan.

[theinvertedhourglass]

@DicardedMusic Hello thanks for your great comment, to start with the lenses this comes with are great for general observation and even with 40x magnification you can see the lines of cloud on Jupiter and amazing detail on the moon, I have also got a very low quality 4mm eyepiece which gives you 100x magnification with this scope which even with the eyepiece being of poor quality still gives a great image, a better 4mm can be quite expensive but 100x mag is great for the moon etc....

[DicardedMusic]

Thanks so much for this review. I just bought one from Amazon this afternoon and it is a very decent first scope. Are there extras I can order for it to help magnify the images I'm getting? Any help would be greatly appreciated. My son and I are total novices.