SVBONY asked me to review this 60mm white light telescope. Given its low price of about $75, I wasn’t expecting much. I’m glad to say that I was pleasantly surprised.
In the unboxing, I found a lightly padded backpack, a tripod, the 60mm refractor, 1.25” diagonal, 20mm eyepiece of unknown design, and instruction manual.
The tripod is light duty, but the telescope is lightweight. Given that my testing was in a 10 MPH wind, the tripod performed better than I expected. Still, a better tripod is recommended and the scope comes with a short Vixen dovetail to enable mounting on a telescope mount.
The telescope has a standard pinhole solar finder already mounted. With a focal length of 400mm, the 20mm eyepiece provides 20x magnification. That makes the Sun easier to find. Until you find it, all you will see is black of course. Once found, you might want to swap to a higher magnification. A 14mm eyepiece would probably be just right. That said, the image I saw was crisp and clear. I could easily see five sunspot groups with the provided eyepiece.
The picture of the Sun here was taken with the same cellphone as the other pictures and I have never been good at cellphone-eyepiece photography. Still, it turned out to be acceptable.
This telescope is intended for people new to solar observing and I think this telescope does a good job at that without breaking the bank.
