Very good scope for the money. Only con is the spotter scope. I just like a good spotter scope. Besides, it looks a lot better than the cheap litttle red dot it came with.

Awesome telescope!

Love it. Good enough for an amateur like me.

Seems a good piece of equipment. My problem is that one tripod leg was loose and come out of it socket at first use, when extending the bottom part, and will not stay inside it socket. You lift the tripod, it may stay with it, but as soon as you touch it, comes off. Tried to troubleshoot to see if there was something to tight or secure, but no luck. Seems that I have been unlucky and got a faulty piece of equipment.
Talked to the seller, and will return it. No issue there. Adorama was very professional.

However, it comes in a large box that contains the OTA, the tripod, and the arm with motors that goes over the tripod. Assembly is fast and easy (if it weren't for the leg that pops off). You have inside also the same instructions/software that you can download from Celestron website, a RS232 cable to connect the handset to a PC (which PC in recent years has a RS232 serial port??) for which you will need an adapter (unless your computer is from the 90'), the star diagonal and the eyepiece.

Also you have the Celestron kit with the filters and additional Plossyl eyepieces.

The scope is well packaged in a double box, with each piece in a styrofoam insert and bubble wrap.Transportation damage is unlikely, unless very badly treated by the courier.

The entire scope is not particularly heavy, but it is unlikely to be transported in a single piece, makes more sense and more practical to move the tripod as a piece and the OTA+arm together as another, if you need to carry in/out the house or move it in a car.

Didn't use it much, more than the initial setup, because of the tripod leg. Didn't feel safe to use.

Setup is easy enough. The trick is making the initial alignment of the small finderscope. If that is done properly, then doing the telescope skyalign/3stars alignment is easy.
Another trick not described in the documentation, is balancing the scope at the right point on the dovetail guide. The scope need to be pushed almost all to the front, leaving only 1.5-2" or 4-5 cm of rail, so that the CELESTRON marking on the rail is fully visible with a few cm to the fork still.

One annoying thing, the handheld controller doesn't keep the time. Everytime you switch on/off you need to re-enter the exact time.
Once setup and aligned, the tracking of stars not that precise... they keep drifting. Maybe related to the tripod leg problem.
Anyway, returning it and hope the next one has no defect

This is basically a nice scope to have and the Schmidt-Cassegrain technology makes it as good as most college or lower end public observatories. The point to beware of is that they kept the entry price low by going cheap on the eyepiece lenses and making it battery driven. The lens it comes with as well as those in the accessory kit have a very short eye relief distance meaning you need to literally jam the thing right against your eyeball to get a clean focus, something altogether impossible if you need to wear glasses/contact lenses or have a stigmatism. The way you get around these issues is to purchase their binocular eyepiece adaptor and two of their 24mm...8mm. zoom eyepiece lenses. Their zoom lenses are quite nice and have long eye relief for extended comfortable viewing with contacts or glasses. You also need a rechargable 12VDC power supply, theirs is a good unit also, The spotting scope it comes with is also very low end and you need to upgrade it one that has a 90° angle or else you will spend a lot of time hunching over. All combined this will easily set you back another $700 but in the end you will have a scope you can comfortably use for extended periods of time.