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The reason I didn't want to return is due to me living on a remote island, and packages from Germany take roughly 2 weeks to arrive, so in order for me to swap the mount its at least a month of waiting time, I wanted to possibly avoid having to wait another month to use this telescope. Its not just the mount I'm unhappy with (I mean we can clearly see from the videos above just how much love and care goes into making these) the optical tube is cheap (a tin of beans has better build quality, at least they're made out of aluminium, not this cheap Chinese - can't tell if its metal or plastic material they use) the focuser looks like something out of a Christmas Cracker. Oh and also the fact that SkyWatcher even cheaped out on not providing a handset with this package despite providing one with their 127 MCT which is exactly the same price and more costly to manufacture. Cheap. Oh how wonderful it is to try and look through an eyepiece and use a touch screen phone with no sensory feedback to know which button you are actually pressing, what geniuses they are. This telescope is a gimmick in my opinion, the only decent thing you can say is that its optically good, everything else is pure horse manure, I'm sorry if I'm offending people here as there are clearly some fans of this package but in my opinion, its worth 350 euros at best, how they managed to justify an extra 250 on top of that is beyond me. If anyone wants to buy a barely used Stardiscovery and brand new mount then get in touch, I'd be happy to sell it.

Hi all, I have owned this telescope just over a week and already my Azimuth axis is loose and wobbly. I have tried to fiddle with the locking nuts but the Allen key is just spinning inside the hole, however on the top clutch the same Allen key is able to tighten the locking nut. Im struggling to see the 'great engineering' people keep referring to (this post is 5 years old and SkyWatcher have clearly done nothing to address it). Luckily, with the fact that I've had it for just over a week it's still under warranty. However if you happen to be considering buying this telescope then just avoid it at all cost. I've never spent so much money on something that feels so cheap. I've never been so underwhelmed and disappointed at making a big purchase. If you did unfortunately happen to buy this piece of plastic my advice would be to forget the 'freedom find' feature. The mount was rock solid until I decided to spend one night manually slewing it, this has somehow caused the clutches to become loose and now there's an inch of play side to side when wobbling the Azimuth axis. In one night the mount aged 5 years. With hindsight I would have never have bought this scope but I'm stuck with it now and just hoping the next mount was put together properly. Sorry for my negative post, but the only reason I found this website was due to having to google how to fix my brand new mount. Hoping this post at least saves another person from sinking 600 euros into this junk. Best regards, Ryan