Dana Williams from United States, PA Public Profile

I recently purchased the 130EQ as my first telescope and I am very pleased. It is budget minded so it is not as perfect as some higher cost telescopes, however there are not many 'I wish I had this..' associated with it. Setting it up was quite simple, and mine was already culminated out of the box.

The EQ mount functions well, though the tripod is not the most stable so distant objects will bounce around a lot.
The 10mm eye piece is the most useful as it seems to be made better than the 20mm. I do recommend purchasing an eyepiece kit for it as well that includes a 2x or 3x barlow magnifier. This will help enlarge distant objects.

You will not be able to view Deep Space Objects with it, however I have viewed objects as far as Neptune with it quite easily. A magnifying barlow would have made Neptune a bit more than a bright dot, but the closer planets should be easily seen better.