The human eye is capable of seeing approximately 10,000 stars in the night sky. This telescope can show you 50,000,000! This is a telescope you'll never outgrow, it's an excellent instrument for visual astronomy. It uses high quality mirrors to deliver huge amounts of light and detail to your eye. To help you get the most out of it, we've bundled the scope with a 7mm eyepiece that will bring the magnification up to 170x for high quality planetary views and zooming in on the moon, a nice set of filters to add contrast to those bright solar system objects, and an excellent guide to the 110 Messier objects that this scope will show you. This is an excellent telescope and the workbook will keep you busy year round exploring the wonders of the night sky.