A steady mount beats a big number on the box · review
A NASA-branded children’s telescope for the Moon, with a wide-angle and a zoom eyepiece, a finder and a tabletop tripod — and no aperture or focal length in the listing.
The bottom line A friendly, well-aimed Moon telescope for a young child, sold without either of the two numbers that would let anyone judge it.
Every telescope on this site is described by its aperture and its focal length. This listing publishes neither. What it publishes instead is a magnification — 90x — which depends on both, and which therefore cannot be assessed.
It points at the Moon, from a table, with a finder to help. That is a coherent product for a six-year-old: the Moon is bright, easy to find, spectacular at low power, and available most weeks. A telescope that does one thing reliably beats one that does five badly.
A zoom in this class is a convenience rather than an optical advantage. It saves a child swapping eyepieces in the dark, and it is usually softer than a fixed eyepiece of the same price. Both of those are worth knowing before the first night.
The aperture will be printed on the tube or in the manual. Once known, the useful magnification ceiling follows from it — and it will be well below ninety.
German, French, Italian and Spanish Amazon stores sat at about 50 € on the day of the survey.
British Amazon store lists it in local currency, which the euro range above sets aside.
American Amazon catalogue holds a record for it that nobody is selling.
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 17 September 2026. The live price is at the top of the page.
| Mount steadiness | Tabletop tripod with a smooth pan mechanism |
|---|---|
| Aperture | Not stated anywhere in the listing |
| Focal length | Not stated anywhere in the listing |
| Eyepiece fitting | Not published by the maker. |
| Finder type | Not published by the maker. |
| Tripod height | Not published by the maker. |
| Assembly effort | Not published by the maker. |
| Supplied contents | A wide-angle and a zoom, per the maker · Finder scope |
| Amazon reference | B0DTWFM794 (same reference on 6 Amazon marketplaces) |
| EAN | 0810152670873 |
Aperture sets both light grasp and the resolution ceiling. Without it, a 90x claim cannot be judged at all — on a small objective that magnification would show an enlarged blur rather than more detail.
No. It is a licence, and it says nothing about the optics. The figures this site would publish for any telescope — aperture and focal length — are absent from this one.
70 mm aperture · 300 mm focal length
A 70/300 refractor for beginners with two eyepieces, a 3x Barlow, a 1.5x erecting lens, a metal Moon filter, an aluminium tripod and a phone adapter.
Best for: A wide, bright first view of the Moon and star fields at low power
≈ €39
1000x hand microscope · 10x telescope · digital, 1080p
A two-in-one STEM device for children: a 1000x digital hand microscope and a 10x telescope attachment, recording 1080p stills and video to a memory card.
Best for: A child interested in insects, leaves and stones, with occasional distant viewing
≈ £28 / €28
70 mm aperture · 400 mm focal length · from age 8
The BRESSER JUNIOR 70/400 in its backpack version, with three 24.5 mm eyepieces, a star diagonal, a 1.5x erecting lens, a tripod and a phone holder.
Best for: A child from about eight who will carry and set up the telescope without help
≈ £85 / €64
