Product Review
With a magnification of 200X, the excellent ETX optics easily show moon shadows crossing the face of Jupiter. The five inch aperture of the ETX125EC brings out significantly more detail in the moon, the planets, and deep space objects. The ETX125EC brings the excellent optics of the original ETX-90 to a larger size, more suitable for serious observing. Maksutov-Cassegrain telescopes like this have a reputation for handling high power well which is true of the ETX125EC.
It is portable and has a generous 5" objective in the small package afforded by the Maksutov-Cassegrain design of a lens and two mirrors. The optics is of high quality, as are most commercial Meade and Celestron scopes today. The included 26mm Super Plssl eyepiece gives it a magnification of 73x.
The mount is adequate for mounting the scope in altitude-azimith mode. The Autostar is a great boon to this telescope, if one takes the time to learn to set up the telescope properly, and learns the locations in the sky of the stars the alignment routine uses for set up.
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