Not a must, but adequate for the price

I have the accessory pack and use it in the meantime only the convenient carrying case. The reason is that I have found me better eyepieces that Huygens and Ramsden eyepieces of First Scopes and accessories package are usable, but that's about all. For planetary observation (resp. Moon) is 6mm eyepiece suitable, but here, the 4 mm eyepiece a higher magnification. For deep-sky objects (. Eg globular clusters) is 6 mm eyepiece - so my experience - too dark, so far, it is not absolutely necessary. Only the 12.5 mm eyepiece makes sense here because it bridges the gap between 20 mm and 4 mm.

The moon filter is also fine, but he swallowed a lot of detail (at least as I see it), and now I watch the (half) moon therefore without a filter and with a slightly lower magnification. With full magnification, however, the filter is useful, although there are certainly better Moonfilter. Again, you get precisely the quality that you would expect at the price.

The viewfinder is theoretically (and more experienced observers probably almost) functional, but for the beginner probably not recommended. As another reviewer has noted been right, he is only ever useful useful when the telescope is positioned high enough, the normal table height here ranges usually not because you simply not deep enough gets his head to a reasonable insight to catch in the viewfinder. But that is not the fault of the viewfinder, but a natural consequence of the shortness of the telescope basically. I myself have the viewfinder - with whom I could do anything - now replaced by an LED Red Dot Finder. The is absolutely suitable for beginners: he has the insight point above, but more importantly, that it does not increase, so you can fine geared to the Constellations: simply align red dot on the target area and you're done. When a seeker enlarged, then more stars in the viewfinder field and the beginners seem comes easily confuse, respectively. loses almost inevitably completely disoriented.

For an advanced observer the 20 mm eyepiece may be sufficient to find the desired object, but I dare say that this is almost impossible for an Astro rookie. A good viewfinder is therefore highly recommended if you want to experience a successful start with a lot of fun and as little frustration with the FirstScope. Perhaps one succeeds then what was denied me will find it in the first observation night.

The bundled software I sadly can not say because it is not running on my PC (Linux).

Conclusion: you should think twice about whether it would be better if, instead of the accessories package rather some money in an ordinary eyepiece (eg 9 mm Skywatcher Ultra Wide Angle or (Super) Plössl.) And a compatible viewfinder (eg red dot finder. ) invested; Although one could buy for the money two accessory packs, on the other hand considers this the Firstscope far more than those. At least that is my opinion, which is based on my own experience.