A sealed tube, a lens at the front, and color to account for · review
A 60/900 achromatic refractor on a light alt-azimuth mount and aluminum tripod, sold complete with three 1.25 in eyepieces, a 1.25 in diagonal, a 1.5x erecting lens, a 5x24 finder and a phone holder, 2.5 kg (5.5 lb) in all.
Sixty millimeters of lens at nine hundred millimeters of focal length is f/15. That one ratio explains most of this telescope.
A two-element achromat bends blue light slightly differently from red, and the shorter the tube, the more that shows as a violet fringe on bright edges. At f/15 the fringe is faint enough to ignore on the Moon, Jupiter and Venus.
The long focal length also gives high magnification with ordinary eyepieces, and it makes cheap eyepieces look better than they are. The cost is a narrow field and a tube close to a yard long.
The three eyepieces and the diagonal are listed at 1.25 in (31.7 mm), the standard barrel size of modern amateur astronomy.
That matters more than any figure on the box. Kits with 0.965 in (24.5 mm) fittings lock their owner into a dead size; this one accepts any eyepiece, Moon filter or Barlow sold today. See eyepiece barrel diameters for why.
The listing says up to 338x. That is the 4 mm eyepiece (225x) through the 1.5x erecting lens.
A 60 mm aperture is conventionally held to about 120x at the outside, and less on an unsteady night. Past that the image gets bigger and dimmer without showing more. The 20 mm eyepiece, at 45x, is where this telescope looks its best; the 12.5 mm, at 72x, is the planet eyepiece.
The whole kit is listed at 2.5 kg (5.5 lb), tripod and accessory tray included. It can be carried outside in one hand, which is the property that decides how often a first telescope gets used.
The mount is a simple alt-azimuth head: up-down and left-right, nothing to align. The maker publishes no slow-motion controls, so the tube is nudged by hand. At 72x and above, nudge, let go, and wait a second for the view to settle.
A first telescope for the Moon and planets, for a child with an adult nearby, or for a balcony where a heavier instrument would never come out. Anyone hoping to see faint galaxies should look at a wider aperture on the reflector shelf instead.
On November 7, 2026, Amazon.com listed it at about $238 from a third-party seller, with no offer from Amazon itself.
Figures as Keepa reported them on the day this page was last updated. Stock and pricing shift without warning.
Prices quoted in this text were read on November 7, 2026. The live price is at the top of the page.
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| Aperture | 60 mm (2.36 in), stated in the listing |
|---|---|
| Focal length and ratio | 900 mm (35.4 in) · f/15, the quotient of the two published figures |
| Lens design | Achromatic refractor (two-element objective); the listing calls it a classic lens telescope |
| Glass type | Not published by the maker. |
| Focuser | Not published by the maker. |
| Drawtube | 1.25 in (31.7 mm), the size the listing gives for the diagonal and the eyepieces |
| Tube weight | Not published separately · 2.5 kg (5.5 lb) for the complete kit, tripod included · 130 × 90 × 90 cm (51.2 × 35.4 × 35.4 in) set up |
| Supplied accessories | Eyepieces of 20 mm, 12.5 mm and 4 mm (1.25 in) · 1.25 in diagonal · 1.5x erecting lens · 5x24 finder · smartphone holder · alt-azimuth mount · aluminum tripod with accessory tray · downloadable astronomy software |
| Amazon reference | B06Y1T1GT6 |
| EAN | 4007922039770 |
Divide 900 mm by the eyepiece: 45x with the 20 mm, 72x with the 12.5 mm and 225x with the 4 mm. The 1.5x erecting lens multiplies each of those, which is where the 338x on the listing comes from. A 60 mm lens is conventionally good to about twice its aperture in millimeters, so roughly 120x on a steady night; the 20 mm and 12.5 mm are the eyepieces that will see most use.
The Moon in great detail, Saturn's rings as a clear shape, Jupiter's two main cloud belts and its four bright moons, the phases of Venus, and many double stars. Faint galaxies and nebulae are mostly out of reach; that is a limit of the aperture, not of the eyepieces.
It is classical, and it has real advantages: almost no false color from a two-element lens, simple eyepieces working at their best, and high power without very short eyepieces. The price is a narrow field of view and a long tube on a light mount.
7.2/ 10
A long, slow, classical refractor at a weight anyone can carry, sold with a magnification figure nearly three times what 60 mm can use.
This model is listed on Amazon.com, at ≈ $238 at the last reading. Listed is not the same as in stock: availability changes daily, and the buy box shows the live price.
Details checked on November 7, 2026.
The Moon, double stars and the bright planets from a balcony or a yard, with nothing to align
Specifications: the manufacturer sheet for telescopes and observing optics and the matching Amazon product page. Prices and availability: Keepa. Every figure on this page names its source.
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