Ok so this is not gonna be spotting aliens from a far but for a young child starting out it's gotta be worth a go?
All comments (23)
BellasMommy
1 Sep 17#1
Thanks so much my little girl turned 6 last week and is really getting into space so will love this! HEAT
dewonderful
1 Sep 17#2
:laughing:
chapchap to dewonderful
1 Sep 17#4
Drink is a wonderful thing
dewonderful to chapchap
2 Sep 17#10
Looking at your profile pic, I would have to reply that in your case cocaine is a hell of a drug
scarper
1 Sep 17#3
looks pretty unusable on a shabby tripod...cheap but destined for the bin
rev6 to scarper
1 Sep 17#5
Can it be used with another tripod?
ILikeUsingGifsToComment
1 Sep 17#6
deaks07dd
1 Sep 17#7
Out off stock
GlentoranMark
1 Sep 17#8
Just remember for a toy, this could blind a child or burn a house down if used unsupervised.
Angof
1 Sep 17#9
These telescopes are junk. Don't waste your money. If tou really want your children to appreciate the night sky use your 7.99 to buy a book about constellations and use your eyes.
tinca to Angof
2 Sep 17#19
A nice pair of binoculars. That way they can be taken out for 'walks' as well
VDisillusioned
2 Sep 17#11
There's not much point to these. Even less so as a present for a child. As Angof says, buy a book, go somewhere with dark skies and see the heavens.
tomharris79656
2 Sep 17#12
you_gotta_be_kidding
2 Sep 17#13
Lol @ all the hate for these, I once bought my kids a Discovery channel one which was under £20, it was totally crap but my son loved it, if you wanna spend £1000s on a telescope for a child then rock on but I'm happy with them playing with the budget one's for now
dancingbear84
2 Sep 17#14
I bought one a while back, it is basically unusable. I'd not spend 1000s on one but this was totally pointless
te721
2 Sep 17#15
It's £7.99..... I think the ops description is perfect! Heat
JusticeForThe96
2 Sep 17#16
Love reading negative comments about stuff like this.
over 4 times cheaper than Amazon for a toy and people kick off :relaxed:
VDisillusioned to JusticeForThe96
2 Sep 17#18
It's not a toy, it's a rubbish telescope that is worth less than nothing. As others have pointed out, a child could seriously hurt themselves with this and so it should not be given as a toy.
JonF992
2 Sep 17#17
You don't need to spend thousands to start on astronomy. I'm pretty keen on astronomy and have a couple of decent scopes which allow me to see things like Jupiter's Great Red Spot. The most expensive of these was £150 second hand. So you don't need to spend a fortune.
However, this is just a waste of eight quid, and would most likely just put someone off. Advertising it as providing 600x magnification is ridiculous. There are proper starter scopes out there which cost tens of pounds - OK, a good bit more than this but at least they will work, whereas this is just junk.
The comment about safety is important as well. If a kid has one of these and is playing about with it and points it at the sun they could be blinded in a second.
pasheast to JonF992
4 Sep 17#22
So a more expensive scope that's not "rubbish" couldn't also seriously hurt a child if they're "playing about with it and point it at the sun"? :astonished:
JonF992 to pasheast
5 Sep 17#23
Of course it can, as you know. The point is that a crappy scope is far more likely to be just left as a plaything, which a kid might pick up unsupervised, whearas a decent one would be far more likely to be looked after and used properly.
CartoonHead78
2 Sep 17#20
if they are anything like the [email protected] cameras they make this will be unusable I would save the £7.99, for my pure hate of everything Vivitar this is cold!
GlentoranMark
3 Sep 17#21
I'm also an astro "nut", own a small telescope myself (Celestron 102SLT) but I use my binoculars far more. I get the points including my own about how crap this is but it is a toy and if it gives a child a greater interest in the subject then that's brilliant. I'm dead against these scopes for serious use but for a toy they are great and for a coat hanger even better (I know, mine is used as a coathanger when not in use.) Just don't be expecting anything if you bought this.
Please supervise a child when using this during daytime. I destroyed a 9mm eyepiece I got with my Celestron scope when I tried to project the Sun through it. I'm an experienced observer btw but even I didn't estimate the power of these small scopes. If I done it and I should have known the risks, think what a small child would do if he/ she tried to look at the Sun.
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Ok so this is not gonna be spotting aliens from a far but for a young child starting out it's gotta be worth a go?
All comments (23)
over 4 times cheaper than Amazon for a toy and people kick off :relaxed:
However, this is just a waste of eight quid, and would most likely just put someone off. Advertising it as providing 600x magnification is ridiculous. There are proper starter scopes out there which cost tens of pounds - OK, a good bit more than this but at least they will work, whereas this is just junk.
The comment about safety is important as well. If a kid has one of these and is playing about with it and points it at the sun they could be blinded in a second.
So a more expensive scope that's not "rubbish" couldn't also seriously hurt a child if they're "playing about with it and point it at the sun"? :astonished:
Please supervise a child when using this during daytime. I destroyed a 9mm eyepiece I got with my Celestron scope when I tried to project the Sun through it. I'm an experienced observer btw but even I didn't estimate the power of these small scopes. If I done it and I should have known the risks, think what a small child would do if he/ she tried to look at the Sun.