Levenhuk Skyline Plus 130S Telescope – Powerful Newtonian Reflector on Equatorial Mount for Deep Sky Observations

This is just what I wanted and I'm very happy with the product and its quality. Everything is metal except for parts of the eyepieces and some of the turning handles. The EQ mount is solid, the counterweight seems sufficient as I was able to balance it quickly on both axis, and it turns smoothly and fluidly. The stand itself is lightweight, probably aluminum or something, but is more substantial than many telescopes I looked at which were more expensive; it holds the telescope well. There is some shaking in the eyepiece when you touch it and use the small axis adjusters, which does make it hard to smoothly track objects. However, it's what I expected given the magnification and I haven't heard of any telescope in this price range or much higher, honestly, that wouldn't have the same issue if not worse. I'm fairly new to telescopes but put this thing completely together in about fifteen minutes. It is complex, but made sense to me and was very well packaged. Out of the box it did need slight collimation, but that only took a couple of minutes with a laser collimator, and since then the views have been very sharp, bright, and hardly any light blur or the like on the edges. Only thing there was my mirror did not have a center dot, which made it harder to collimate well, but I could eyeball it easily enough. It really is a quality telescope, ESPECIALLY for the price. Nice aperture size and focal ratio, decent eyepieces (although I did upgrade to some others), and a lifetime warranty (we'll see if I ever need it and if Levenhuk is actually easy to work with if I do).An EQ mount is complex and hard to figure out, just FYI. You can still point generally at visible things in the sky and just use it without really knowing what you're doing with the mount, but then you may just want to save some money and get an AZ mount. I'm still figuring it all out, and haven't done so well-enough yet to know if the setting circles are properly set, but assuming they are, it's a great feature to have and seems like a quality EQ mount. It's not small, but I can pick it up and move it around the yard easily enough. Packing it into a car would take some careful effort, though.I'm in a suburb of a city with decent light pollution but dark spots in the yard to set up, and was able to see in my first night the rings of Saturn, Jupiter and its cloud bands, moons of each. Both quite bright and sharp. At 6mm lens, they were nicely magnified but hard to track and stabilize and lost some focus, so I don't know if such a lens is necessary, would more recommend a good Barlowe.I'll update if anything changes as I use it more, but so far really happy with it and thought I'd share since I couldn't find hardly any reviews on this telescope.

It was very hard to assemble. After completion, the telescope is not what it says it is. Sky observation lens is so small that you can't barely see it. Great disappointment with this product!