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I ve been very pleased with SVBONY's budget scopes. I have the 122mm version and its my favorite of all my scopes. Visually, its such a nice and sharp APO good for planetary watching. I only wish they sold more variety of field flatteners. It came with dew heater, handle, FF. SVbony also reaches out to you and ask if you have any questions or suggestions. Best service I like this brand.

My first scope was the sv503 80mm and it was a great scope to get me hooked on the hobby! Now i have the sv550 80mm, sv550 122mm and sv555 54mm. All are great budget scopes!

I would say it was an excellent purchase, the optics arrived in perfect condition, the Star test was OK, and the images of the planet, Moon and deep sky were beautiful. The telescope was purchased for visual purposes and not astrophotography, but from what I've read it also does well in that area. The weight and price are lower than the competition. I'm very happy with this telescope. The only downside is the delivery time to Portugal, 16 business days. This could be improved.

Upgraded from a 72mm Astro-Tech doublet to the 122mm Sv550.. Although a much bigger, heavier telescope I’d still class it as a portable travel scope -just took a few sessions to get used to the extra weight. The quality of the images is outstanding - the step up from doublet to triplet makes a real difference in image quality and detail. The telescope is solid and classy - pinpoint stars with no noticeable chromatic abberation .

I received the telescope yesterday. The telescope was packed very well with accessories. Tomorrow the weather is going to be good so I will check it.

I received the telescope yesterday. Perfectly packed with accessories. First impression very positive, great glass. We'll see how the first photons fall.

I have been using this scope for almost half a year and you find my detail review on SVbony blog. To summarize, I find SVbony SV550 122mm APO as an excellent value-price solution. For your money, you will receive a very well manufactured and solid APO telescope with excellent mechanical machine as well as optics. The large aperture of 122mm provides high light-gathering capacity and resolution, both focal lengths options, 683 and 854 mm, using two potential SVbony flatteners, are optimal for most of the DSO targets. I recommend buying some of the telescope bundles, including at least a flattener/reducer, and eventually an SVbony dew heater band, a handle, a filter drawer and a guide scope, if you already do not have any. I must admit I am very satisfied and pleased with the scope.

It is a rather large 122mm aperture ApoChromat (see definition on Wikipedia) with excellent color correction. On a few good nights I was able to get a few images with it, just to test it out. I used a Skywatcher HEQ5 mount (an AVX would work just as well) and a RisingCam IMX571 camera. Pros : Excellent optical quality for the price Very well-made focuser, ring mounts and 0.8x reducer Complete accessories (finder mount, guider mount etc) Cons : This thing has a good size and is not light !

The build quality is superb, the optics are bright and sharp, the focus mechanism is extremely solid and smooth. The entire assembly is much more solid that it appears to be in pictures. Definitely a higher end scope. Pretty thrilled with it so far. After getting some more clear nights boy this thing performs beyond expectations, I’m imaging with the ASI2600MM pro in mono with it and wow, pinpoint stars across the entire feild, no aberration noticeable at all. This scope is the deal of the century. If you’re on a budget and looking for a very high performance APO for astrophotography then it can’t be beat there’s nothing I’d complain about. I mounted it to a Losmandy rail to add room for power supplies and my imaging computer. I still haven’t had enough clear night to really push it to it’s limits but having taken some images under less than perfect conditions the results are impressive to say the least…

I have been doing astrophotography for a little less than two years. I started out with an 8 inch Schmidt Cassegrain style telescope (SCT) but I wanted a telescope with a wider field of view. I decided to order the SV550 80 mm refractor telescope from Svbony and loved it. So when SVBONY came out with the SV550 122 mm telescope and I saw some video reviews, I decided to order one to replace the 8 inch SCT reflector. I couldn't be happier with a telescope. It is a little on the heavy side (14 lb/6.4 kg vs 12 lb/5.4 kg for the SCT) but it's not too much for a senior citizen like me to handle. It has a nice long dew shield that extends and retracts smoothly. I use the manual focuser with a Bahtinov mask as a focus aid. It dials in smoothly and maintains focus once set. With the 1.0x field flattener, the stars are sharp and round points of light all across the field of view. In comparison with the 8" SCT with a 0.63x focal reducer, the quality of the images has improved greatly. In comparison with the SV550 80 mm telescope, it has over twice the light-gathering capability, so I am able to get more detail in my images during a single night of photography. All in all, I am extremely happy with this telescope and expect to get many years of great images with it.

The scope is outstanding. Build quality is what you would expect from Svbony. Surprisingly light for the size. With a large front aperture, your camera setup on the back will be easy to balance. Another great product from a great company.

Very well made, a solid piece of equipment made with quality Ohara Japan S-FPL51 ultra low dispersion glass. I coupled it with a solid Skywatcher HEQ5 mount and a Sony IMX571 chip 26Mp cooled deep sky camera. You can see my first visual impressions on YouTube under video labelled : KLTyzWgymQ0 Stay tuned for more pictures !