Bushnell 78-3650 telescope
I think the constellation mode can give you a tour of deep-sky objects, but the whole system is convoluted enough that I haven’t figured out how to use it. For whatever reason, rather than including an actual object catalog the Sky Tour merely enables you to find constellations (why you’d do this with a telescope is beyond me), tells you about mythology (mildly interesting, I suppose), and helps you find the planets (which you really don’t need assistance finding as you can literally see five of the seven observable ones with the naked eye Uranus and Neptune are pretty unremarkable with a 3” telescope anyway). The Voyager comes with a strange “Sky Tour” device that gives you coordinates to find the object of your choice using the scope’s setting circles, as well as a talking voice to tell you interesting facts and information about the objects you select. Strangely enough, Bushnell doesn’t include a cheap Barlow lens or market it on the basis of “power”, so why they put a 4mm Huygens in and didn’t include a low-power eyepiece puzzles me. Additionally, there’s no low-power eyepiece with a focal length of above 20mm, and the 4mm eyepiece provides too much magnification for the telescope to handle.
These eyepieces are almost entirely useless, with narrow and aberrated fields of view and tiny lenses. The Voyager 700x76mm comes with three Huygens eyepieces: A 12.5mm (56x), an 8mm (88x) and a 4mm (176x). The last time this was acceptable on a consumer-grade telescope was in the 1960s, with telescopes such as the Edmund Space Conqueror and Super Space Conqueror – and even back then, people complained about how cheap and inconvenient it was! The wingnuts are quite small and easy to use, and prevent one from sliding or rotating the telescope tube to balance it or move the eyepiece to a convenient location additionally, the bolts are annoying to deal with when transporting the scope. The optical tube attaches to the mount via the most simplistic system I have ever seen on a commercial telescope – two wingnuts attaching to bolts through the tube. However, it is all plastic and doesn’t work particularly well. The Voyager 700x76mm does, oddly enough for such a cheaply-made scope, have a 1.25” focuser. The optics in this scope are about the only thing I can really say is good about it everything is just downhill quality-wise from here on. It has a spherical primary mirror, but with a 3” f/9.2 mirror a sphere deviates so slightly from a parabola that it falls well within the tolerances as to what is considered acceptable for a telescope’s primary mirror. The Bushnell Voyager 700x76mm Reflector Telescope is, as the name says, a 76mm (3”) Newtonian reflector with a 700mm focal length, making it f/9.2.