Bushnell Northstar 5" Maksutov Cassegrain GoTo Telescope 1550 x 127mm 788850

Works great, a little dusty, but still have the original instruction booklet. Paid $480 for it when it was purchased in 2011, newer models have come out but this is still perfect for a beginner and gets the job done! Don't pay full price for one until you know this is going to be a serious hobby. Perfect Christmas gift for the kids or aspiring astronomers! The Bushnell Northstar 1550x127 Motorized GoTo Maksutov-Cassegrain telescope 78-8850 advanced features - computer driven location and tracking ability, RVO (Real Voice Output), Red Dot Finderscope - with simple push button controls. Amateur astronomers will appreciate the programmed database of 20,000 celestial objects that the top of the line 5" Bushnell Northstar Maksutov-Cassegrain telescopes is equipped with. The Bushnell Northstar Telescope is one of the biggest bargains on the market, when it comes to a go to telescope. The Bushnell Maksutov-Cassegrain engineering has prroven to have two major benefits. The first being that it eliminates the purple halo that is common in telescopes of this size. The second benefit would have to be the fact that it eliminates the spherical aberration which may cause the output to be seen as blurry or out of focus. Bushnell combined their engineering to provide the consumer one of the best telescopes on the market, featuring the ability to view lunar and view planetary details as well as the nebula star clusters in deep space.