It is probably the biggest you can go with it still being reasonably portable, and the computer will take you to most everything. You can see most deep sky objects very well up to about 11 magnitude. It is awesome on camping trips (that you can drive to—it’s about 50 pounds), but you can see a lot of good stuff in the city. For gatherings, kids are good for about 6-8 objects—a few planets, the moon, a few globular clusters, a galaxy or two, a nebula and then they are done. But I can sit down with a spreadsheet of objects from Sagittarius for an evening and have a good time for about three hours (I like the summer constellations more than the winter ones because I don’t like being cold).

I don’t think the tripod is quite steady enough for good photography—and I would need an equatorial mount and a heavier tripod anyways. Accessories I needed to make it work were a couple better eyepieces, a better star finder, and a power pack for portable power.

But it’s a fun scope.