A great telescope, easy to assemble and use. The Go-To Mount alkows me to find objects and get a better understanding of where to find different planets, constellations, etc in the night sky..This telescope will aid me as my knowledge grows. With the Freedom Find aspect, where you can point the scope in different parts of the sky without losing the Go-To function, gives the freedom to see a star in the sky and to focus on it, and then ask the scope to take me to another star without having to recalibrate.

This arrived within days of the order despite being given a delivery date some weeks away. The boxes are big and it's obvious by weight which one is tripod/mount and which is tube. Be warned the instructions are for the non-wifi version so it details what to with the handset controller rather than the app. I might be wrong but the app (Synscan and Synscan pro) seem far richer in what you can see and do. What would be useful is an LED to indicate that the setup does have power and confirm your batteries are working. To assemble, gently and methodically it took about 15-20 minutes from being unboxed. I also bought a mains power pack as backup rather than keep chomping through AA batteries. The details of how to use the finder scope are sparse as well, with zero mention of the red dot capability...again this might be due to the fact the manual is for the earlier version of this system. Be warned, the tripod and mount is heavy and cumbersome so if using away from the garden or your house I'd advise dismantling rather than fight with weight and balance to move it away. That might sound negative but in truth the niggle are minor. The red dot finder scope is covered adequately on Youtube, and also a channel called Astronomy and Nature TV gives this a cracking review and overview. I used it on my own for he first time last night, had aligned the finder with the tube during the day, used the red dot to align with a very bright Jupiter last night...and then spent 4 hours until 01:00am gazing in awe at Jupiter, Saturn, Lyra, Vega and much more. The 10mm eyepiece views of Jupiter and Saturn were superb, rings, moons and it was thrilling and inspiring. The track capability is brilliant and after one use on my own I am already looking to the next clear night. Highly recommended for starters like me, but you need a bit of persistence to compensate for the poor manual. Top marks for FLO who willingly answer questions , no matter how daft, quickly and politely. My 'goto' place for all future astronomy bits!

Ordered this telescope on a Friday and it arrived at my house the next Tuesday. I couldn’t believe how fast FLO shipped the scope. It arrived well packaged and everything was in great condition.

The scope itself was so easy to setup for a beginner. Took about 5 minutes to unpack and put together. Waiting for a clear night to check it out but so far very impressed.

The telescope arrived a couple of days after it was ordered great service from FLO as usual, very well packed a wee bit out of collimating but was sorted in a few minutes probably due to travel a wee tweak on the secondary Mirror and it was sorted. Set up the wi fi a couple of minutes got it out that night the moon was out but the sky was very bad hazy so I had a look at the moon and the view was brilliant done the north level alignment and picked two stars whose position I knew even though you couldn’t see any stars just to give a check then I set the go to for the moon and the telescope slewed straight to the moon and had it in the center of the eyepiece, I can’t wait for a clear night to properly try the go to out. I would highly recommend this scope. Excellent service from FLO Thank you
Mickey