Orion StarBlast 6i Intelliscope Reflector Telescope Kit

this is the Orion star blast 6i that's I as in in telescope Orion's way of saying this scope has smart more about exactly what kind of smarts in a moment the six in star blast six means six big inches of aperture with this large light bucket funneling photons into your eyeball you're going to see fainter objects in more detail sure you can observe features on the moon if you screw a lunar filter into the back of your eyepiece so your eyes don't get blown out by the reflected light of the Sun off the moon you can certainly catch planets in the act of being themselves perhaps napping Jupiter's festooned cloud bands rolling across that huge world but you really stand a much better chance of resolving the fuzzies of deep space with a scope like this nebulae galaxies star clusters even comets with this much aperture you could also be right to expect this unit to weigh something substantial a