You get what you pay for - Barska 88x Compact Refractor Telescope 400mm x 70mm w/ Table Top Tripod & Carrying Case

Cheap, cheap, cheap! But I needed an inexpensive 70mm x 400 mm fl refractor objective for making a spectroheliograph, and I did not want to risk pointing my Orion ST80 80mm x 400 mm fl directly at the sun. With this guy you don't worry so much and though time will tell the 70 mm achromatic (coated), appears to give a good projected solar image that I can project on a slit - collimation telescope - diffraction grating - recording camera to get h alpha images of the sun when the movie is suitably processed. For an introduction to astronomy, go Orion or Celestron or Meade brand, pay s bit more and you will never regret it.