Seben 76/900 EQ2 astronomical reflecting telescope

Delivery: very fast, arrived within three days, tracked from Germany.Packaging: extremely well packaged, all parts present. Obviously you have to put it together.Build: fairly easy (especially if you have ever made up flat pack furniture!). It does take a little time to sort out which bolts go where, the instructions could be clearer here, but it all goes together well and appears to be very well made.Usage: this is an area where the instructions are very vague, some detailed information about how to track objects and the maths behind lens powers, but a bit lacking in detail about the various lens options provided. Trial and error work well though. The on line instructions are worth downloading as the drawing needed for building it up is a lot clearer (ignore the obvious typos and mangled English).Summary: appears to be a very well made product, super fast delivery and now looking forward to discovering exactly how good it is (weather permitting). Just a shame that the instructions are not up to the standard of the telescope.

Great starter telescope , but the instructions were more complicated than they needed to be , in the end I put the instructions to one side and worked it out easier that way. Haven't actually used it as yet , this is my first ever telescope , but I am lookng forward to using it . Haven't worked out the lenses yet but I'm sure I will .

I've been told that if I were to spend less than £150 on a telescope I'd end up with a "toy". At time of purchase this was £99, which by that judgement firmly puts it into the "toy" bracket - (and £99 is a reasonable amount of money).Firstly this arrived and it very hefty. The packaging etc weighed around 16kg, so not something you're going to carry around too much once built.Building it was quite a chore, and following the instructions wasn't simply - I'd like to think I can build wardrobes, computers etc, however this telescope took me a good 1+ hour to piece together. As part of putting it together, I got to appreciate where the compromises were for the price, and it was with the build quality of some of the parts.Anyone once done, it was sort of standing, but not too sturdy, however if you were very careful, you could see the moon with all the craters. But it is hard work to get is to do so, due to various shortcomings (some might be just my lack of understanding):-- The viewfinder doesn't match what the main reflector sees, and adjusting from viewfinder crosshairs to main eyepiece is very much trial and error- Just walking away from telescope (so next person can have a look) is enough to wobble the moon out of vision of the eyepiece- H20mm eye piece was ok to see moon, anything higher magnification 4, 6, 12.5mm was too difficult to use.- Couldn't work out how the Barlow lens worked so gave up on that one- Moon filter useful to reduce brightness, but found image quality suffered slightly- Moon was ok, but stars - well I really couldn't work out how to move from viewfinder to reflector eyepiece, despite trying a lot.- The telescope was overly weighted to the right and I found it almost impossible to get it to hold in the horizontal axis. It was stuck at I'd say around -1 degree. I had the screw lock on the hinge, but wasn't strong enough, I had turned it reasonably tight, and was worried any tighter would break things.In summary: I'd say people are right, at this price, don't expect too much and you might be ok. However in this case, I've got a very large telescope which takes up a lot of room, but isn't particularly good. Yes you could spend £200-£400 and get something better. Bottomline is, either get binoculars for £50-100, get this telescope and live with the limitations, or spend big money on something more up-market... the choice is yours...

Rubbish !!! Bought for my 13 year old arrived like a jigsaw puzzle with zero instructions !! Been trying to build for three days ! One very upset boy for Xmas !!!!!!! And too late too return !!!! Not happy at all

Very good scope for the little price tag very surprised at the quality in a market that usually means quality comes at a price but this punches well above it weight, well worth the money and for a budding astronomer this will give very good results for many different levels of expertise from learning to amateur... enjoy

for the low price, you get a LOT with this telescope, and it is delivered fast The scope itself is good - i got some great views of jupiter with its moons, and the detail of our own moon is fantastic. The only downside is the whole 'mechanism', i.e. the all the gubbins between the tripod and the tube, which is a little bit cheap and wobbly, and of course the tiniest wobble will show up BIG TIME when you're looking things millions of miles away. All in all, though, this is a good starter set!!

When I first got this I was smitten. The idea of 400x + Magnification looked superb on paper. However it's almost impossible to focus at anything over 150x because imho the quality of the lens and mirrors is too poor. Additionally the mount screws failed after only a few weeks leaving the whole scope unstable. I got a replacement mount but it had exactly the same problem. At high magnifications it needs to be rock solid, this scope is more like a rocking horse.For £100 + the quality really just isn't there - I would shop elsewhere.On the plus side yes you can just about make out the rings of Saturn and Jupiter's moons but honestly the clarity of the images are terrible.

I received my telescope 2 days ago not had a chance to use it yet due to weather but packaging was good little hole in box but didn't effect product inside. delivery time was good . Found it easy to put together instructions was easy enough to understand . You get a lot for your money . So in all highly recommended for first time or experienced users .