If it's brand new under warranty, I'd return it and get the NexStar 80GT.
The refractor doesn't give too much up in light grasp, doesn't need
collimation and you can always sell it the refractor OTA and mount that nice
Orion 80ED Apo refractor on the goto mount as an easy upgrade.

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Clear Skies,

Chuck

"Glenn Woodell" wrote in message
news:hgYkc.1564$nN6.1223@lakeread06...
In article ,
says...

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