Orion 9024 AstroView 90mm Equatorial Refractor Telescope - Perfect for Stargazing and Astronomical Observation

Harvey Ellman-Brown: I bought this for my daughter who is doing Astronomy GCSE and have been really pleased with the optic quality. Delivery exceeded all expectations. While long lead time arrived in 3 days. A useful tip I was given was if there are electronics on the telescope that potentially takes money about from optics quality. Think about what is more important to you.

United Kingdom on May 11, 2021

AJ: Easy to assemble if you follow the video it takes 10 minutes. First times using it I found the mount takes experience but again orion have great instructional videos. My only big issue is the view finder, when I get it aligned correctly I find the slightest knock and it goes out of alignment which is frustrating and I am probably going to have to replace this. Apart from that nice images of manly the moon so far but I am more interested in lunar and planetary than deep sky so this looks to suit me for a while at least

United Kingdom on May 02, 2021

Michelle Marriott: I love this telescope. Wanted one for ages and took my time looking at reviews and bit research. I actually been out today looking at birds. First time was at night looking at the moon it was really clear and fascinating. Definitely recommend.

United Kingdom on Mar 09, 2021

JasonJason: This telescope is a great option for beginning astronomers. There are less expensive telescopes on the market, but the Orion is a better monetary investment because of both the features available right out of the box and the upgrade potential.

The telescope itself is basic, but good quality for the price. The finder scope is magnified, and better than the red dot finders included with many other entry level purchases. The whole thing can also be put together very quickly. The included star diagonal and eyepieces are also basic, but the use of standard 1.25" connections means that you can easily upgrade them, and any pieces that you do upgrade will also be compatible with higher end telescopes that use a 1.25" connection.

Really though, the reason to get this over another entry level purchase is the mount. Although an equatorial mount is less intuitive than an alt-azimuth mount, taking the time to learn how to use it is time well spent. Tracking objects during a night of stargazing is considerably simpler with a properly aligned EQ mount, and this is especially critical when viewing at high magnification or taking photographs. A good quality EQ mount like this one...

United States on Feb 26, 2020

FSFS: The media could not be loaded.  Dieses Orion AstroView 90/910 EQ-2 ist auf alle Fälle für Anfänger bestens geeignet. An der Qualität und der Funktion der einzelnen Bauteile gibt es nichts auszusetzten. Wir hatten vorher einen kleineren Refraktor der allerdings auf einer AZ Montierung montiert war und daher nicht mit einem Nachführmotor ausrüstbar war. Für dieses Orion auf seiner EQ-2 gibt es im Astroshop einen einfachen Nachführmotor (Skywatcher EQ-2 RA Motorantrieb 37€) der gut passt. Hab ich gekauft und schon seit Wochen in Betrieb!
Damit hat man hier für 230€ + 37€ =267€ ein wirklich lohnendes Teleskop für den Anfang.
(Die Nachführung der Erdachsendrehung sollte nämlich nicht unbeachtet bleiben! Das permanente Nachführen per Hand ist nämlich nicht nur nervig sonder wackelt auch immer wieder an der Montierung)
Und schon sind wir bei dem einzigen Minuspunkt für dieses Teleskop Set:
Die EQ-2 Montierung ist mit diesem langen 90/910 Refraktor was die Schwingunganfälligkeit angeht wirklich an seiner Grenze!
Aber wenn das Dreibein Stativ nicht zu weit rausgezogen ist und alle Schrauben gut angezogen sind ist das noch zu...

Germany on Aug 20, 2017

Mary Mowoe: Ce télescope a un très bon rapport qualité prix. Je suis un débutant total en astronomie et je ne voulais pas dépenser beaucoup d'argent au cas où j'ai découvert que je n'avais pas aimé mon nouveau passe-temps. Mais je voulais aussi un télescope de bonne qualité parce que l'une des raisons pour lesquelles mon intérêt pour l'astronomie pourrait grandir serait à cause de mes expériences. Ce télescope semblait répondre à tous mes critères. Bonne qualité et prix très raisonnable. Il est également léger et vous pouvez acheter un sac de transport qui le rend portable. La livraison a été rapide et, une fois que le télescope a été assemblé, j'ai découvert qu'il y avait des pièces manquantes. Mais j'ai été agréablement surpris par la rapidité avec laquelle le distributeur a répondu à mes courriels par l'intermédiaire de l'Amazonie promettant de m'envoyer les pièces manquantes. J'ai utilisé le télescope, notamment pour regarder la lune et c'était Magnifique. Très bonne qualité. Je n'ai pas encore pu localiser Jupiter et Saturne avec le télescope, de sorte que je peux dire quelle sera la qualité pour regarder des planètes. Mais je suis confiant,...

France on Aug 03, 2017

Linzy: What a suprise. The quality of this equipment far exceeded my expectations at this price. There are a few things that are a little odd about it. 1 the tripod, while very stable once together, is very precarious to assemble. Definitely remove the scope from the equitorial mount to assemble and disassemble. The only bad thing is you will have to balance the scope each time you use it. (You could put a marker mark or some tape to mark the position of the scope) It would also be nice to have a surveyor level in the kit so it can be properly leveled. Not a big deal but at almost $300 a $5 level would be a nice gesture to include. Especially when this is a beginner scope. 2, the instructions are lacking. Again, for a beginner scope, some more diagrams and better (maybe less technical terms) for setting up the equatorial mount would be great. I took off a star because of this, it's one of the main reasons for purchasing this model. I think one of the indicator dials doesn't work on mine but again, I don't really know because I'm not sure if I'm using it correctly. Even though, we were able to take it out Christmas night and I was able to have my son see Venus, the Pleiades star cluster,...

United States on Dec 27, 2016

Tobyus: My wife got this telescope for me for Christmas, and I am pretty pleased with it for the price. I waited almost a whole month to post a review so I would have time to try it out on different kinds of objects and have enough experience with it to give a fair review.

This was my first equatorial mount, and I haven't had too much trouble with that except for the Dec Axis, which always seems to be hitting its limit when I am changing targets, but that is something explained in the instruction manual so I expected it, it is just slightly annoying.

The scope itself seems to be well made, and the 25mm eyepiece that comes with it is awesome in my opinion. The 10mm seems to be OK, but I am much happier with the 6mm Orion Expanse eyepiece I bought to go along with this scope to get closer to the "maximum" magnification and to have a wider view at higher magnification. The finder scope seems to stay on target better than my last telescope (a Meade 114mm reflector goto scope). And I have seen much more color and detail through this scope than my slightly larger aperture reflector.

So far I have seen Jupiter (2 distinct orangish bands) and 4 of its moons. I even managed to...

United States on Jan 22, 2014