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Price as reviewed: $60 (MSRP 69, seen as low as $50).
SVBONY SV510 Solar Eclipse Telescope, 60mm Portable Refractor for Solar Eclipses Sunspots, Meets ISO 12312-2:2015 Standard, Travel Telescope Permanently Attached Solar Filter
This is a lightweight and inexpensive 60mm refractor with a permanently mounted solar viewing film and a solar shadow "finderscope". It comes in a small travel backpack and the SV102 tripod, a diagonal and a K20 eyepiece.
The sun fills about 1/3 of the FOV of the provided K20 eyepiece, and gives a good view of any sunspots. You will need a cloud free view of the sun, with light clouds the solar filter is dark enough you'll not be able to see the sun.
The optical tube has a small plastic vixen style dovetail mount, but also includes a 1/4-20 nut, which is how it attaches to the SV102 tripod. Image quality is perfectly reasonable for viewing the sun, especially at this sub $100 price point.
The tripod is small and light, easy to carry, but also jiggles around a bit due to the light weight. It works, but is a little short for tall people, and is not smooth to track the sun as it moves through the sky.
If you are not traveling with it and have any other tripod on hand, I'd suggest upgrading the tripod for a better tracking experience.
I think it is worth $60, but not much more, and I expect you will be able to find a lot of them on the used market immediately after the April 8th 2024 solar eclipse.
