Celestron 21024 FirstScope Telescope

a 59 telescope [Laughter] yes i'm actually doing a review on a 59 telescope well first of all what is it it's a newtonian reflector and it gathers light with a mirror in the back here the mirror directs the light into a diagonal secondary mirror here which directs the light out into this focuser and you put the eyepiece in here this is where you look and you focus the eyepiece and you aim this way this is the correct orientation of this telescope to change magnifications you change eyepieces now for a long time now the ultra budget segment of our hobby has been dominated by the same two or three models you have the orion short tube 80 the orion star blast and the awb one sky and perhaps a few others those were 150 to 200 or so but here we have what may be called the ultra ultra budget segment of our hobby the under 100 segment is dominated by department store junk it's the stuff we alwa