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Does anyone have any experience with this scope? It's a celestron product. I
have assembled everything with the 8-pack AA batteries plugged in the
teescope. But it refses to power on. Asking for suggestions...

This is a known issue. My connector died the second time I used it. I ended up
replacing it along with a few other things. Check out my page at
http://www.windvisions.com/Astronomy/ for details.

This is a pretty good portable scope. With good collimation you should get a
lot of good seeing out of it but it does need some help in a few areas.

Glenn