I was really dissappointed with this item. National geographic is a well known brand, that seems to have been stamped onto a piece of chinese made tat! I got it as a present for my younger sister, and it cost around £10 (not expensive, but there are a lot of other gifts you can get for someone around a tenner, that is so much better than this). I got it from the entertainer, a shop were I have bought another thing from that also turned out to be terrible.

I wasn't expecting a high quality fully functional telescope, but a telescope good enough to just see stars say a bit bigger (it has written on it how it is capable at star gazing).

Well.. basically, this telescope is appalling. Some of the screws and nuts and the like that hold in various lens and the like keep falling out (and not because they are screwed loose, because they has lost their "contact" with the plastic telescope.

The tripod it comes with is not very stable either. And the telescope itself... well lets put it this way, I have never managed to get a half decent view with it of anything. Let alone looking at stars (which is why I got it). The best you can see are "colours" but you can never make out any shapes or anything like that.

As for the "multiple magnification" lenses... completely pointless, in no magnification can you work out what you are looking at.

Basically, this is a toy, not a telescope, it doesn't function at all, and after about a combined 3 hours of just trying to see anything through it, I have given up. A very poor showing. I would give it 0/5 if I could.