This dew shield is really a bit short for the telescope, and the injection-molded plastic surface on the inside is quite shiny. The dew shield, which is sometimes called a “lens hood,” and the rest of the front of the Inspire 100AZ are all made of black molded plastic. This small design difference doesn’t change how well the telescope works, but it’s worth pointing out because it shows that there are other things that are different from the norm. The Inspire 100AZ’s optical tube is a 100mm f/6.6 refractor with a focal length of 660mm-or so they say in fact, they just stopped down a 102mm f/6.5 slightly due to the design of the front of the telescope being slightly different from the norm. So if you’re considering one of the other Inspire refractors, our comments in this review about everything the Inspire telescopes offer except the optics (and lesser aperture of course) apply to the smaller models as well. The Inspire 100AZ is the largest of the four models of Inspire refracting telescopes, and other than the aperture all of the features and accessories of the Inspire refractors are identical. They’re a bit unusual in that they neither try to offer purely an aperture-for-price value (as with most reflectors) nor a “professional” appearance like many cheap equatorial or fork-mounted refractors. Other than the poor-quality telescopes making up Celestron’s poor-quality bargain lines like the PowerSeeker and AstroMaster series of telescopes, the Inspire refractors are meant to be Celestron’s flagship line of all-manual instruments. The Celestron Inspire 100AZ is part of the Inspire line of refractors, so named because they are meant to inspire children and so forth, as well as be extremely easy to use.
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