The most aperture per euro, and an alignment to keep · review
A 76/700 Newtonian on an equatorial mount, supplied with three eyepieces, an erecting lens, a 3x Barlow, a Moon filter and a smartphone holder.
The bottom line A light, complete and honestly dimensioned starter set, sold with a magnification headline its mirror cannot support.
Seventy-six millimetres of aperture and seven hundred of focal length gives f/9.2. The aperture is modest, and the ratio is forgiving — which is a sensible pairing, because it means the simple supplied eyepieces are working in conditions that suit them.
Seventy-four by twenty-three by fifteen centimetres, and 6.2 kg. Those two lines are worth more to a buyer than most of the rest of the listing, because they answer the question that decides whether a telescope gets used: can it be picked up and carried out in one go.
The shortest supplied eyepiece with the 3x Barlow. On a 76 mm mirror that is far past the aperture’s resolving limit; the image grows, dims and softens. The 25 mm eyepiece is where this telescope looks its best.
The maker says it aligns on Polaris, which is the rough polar alignment that visual observing needs. Done that way it takes a minute and turns tracking into one slow-motion control — the entire benefit, without the precision that photography would demand.
German, French, Italian and Spanish Amazon stores sat at about 166 € 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.
| Aperture | 76 mm (from the title and bullet) |
|---|---|
| Focal length and ratio | 700 mm (maker’s bullet) · f/9.2, the quotient of the two figures above |
| Optical design | Newtonian reflector |
| Mirror coating | Not published by the maker. |
| Secondary obstruction | Not published by the maker. |
| Focuser type | Not published by the maker. |
| Tube length | 74 x 23 x 15 cm, 6.2 kg, as the maker publishes them |
| Collimation access | Not published by the maker. |
| Mount supplied | Equatorial, alignable on Polaris per the maker |
| Supplied accessories | 25 mm, 12.5 mm and 9 mm · 1.5x erecting lens, 3x Barlow, Moon filter, finder, smartphone holder |
| Amazon reference | B007WRY9SI (same reference on 6 Amazon marketplaces) |
| EAN | 4007922201368 |
Lunar craters in quantity, the phases of Venus, Jupiter’s four bright moons and Saturn’s rings as a shape. Deep-sky objects appear as faint patches under a dark sky and mostly not at all under a bright one.
Because it predicts use. A 6.2 kg telescope goes outside on a weeknight; a 15 kg one waits for a weekend, and the difference shows in how many nights it is actually used.
114 mm aperture · 500 mm focal length
A 114/500 Newtonian on an equatorial mount, supplied with two eyepieces, a 3x Barlow, an LED red dot finder and a smartphone camera adapter.
Best for: Wide, bright views of extended objects rather than high-power planetary work
≈ €199
130 mm aperture · smartphone sky recognition
A 130 mm Newtonian on a manual alt-azimuth mount whose dock and app read the star field through the phone camera and steer the observer to a target with on-screen arrows.
Best for: A beginner who wants to see things this month rather than learn to star-hop first
≈ $500 / £399 / €436
114 mm aperture · 1000 mm focal length
A 114/1000 Newtonian on an EQ-1 equatorial mount, supplied with four eyepieces, a 2x Barlow, a 5x24 finder and a Moon filter.
Best for: Lunar and planetary observing on a budget, with eyepieces already covered
≈ €259
