A review of the TV-60 in the December 2004 Sky & Telescope magazine said, "If you think that size matters and that bigger is always better when it comes to telescopes, think again . . . My first serious use of the TV-60 tested the 'Take Me Everywhere' portability touted by the manufacturer (on a trip to Italy to view Venus Transit of June 2004.) The transit made me realize that the TV-60 just might be the ultimate scope for eclipse chasers . . .
As I have come to expect from observing with TeleVue's other short-focus apo refractors, the views with the TV-60 are essentially free of false color . . .
Even at 120x, brilliant Vega, one of the most challenging stars for a refractor to image cleanly, appears as a blue-white Airy disk surrounded by several white diffraction rings and no perceptible color halo . . .
After many nights of observing, I'm comfortable recommending an upper limit of 180x for the TV-60, which is 75x per inch of aperture. I achieved this magnification with the 2-mm setting on the TeleVue 2-to-4-mm Nagler Zoom eyepiece. It offered exceptional views of binary stars (especially the well-known Double-Double in Lyra) and the Moon . . .
The pint-sized TV-60 could match the best high-power view I have ever seen in a quality 60-mm f/15 refractor. And the TV-60 could do something those other scopes couldn't: offer a stunning wide-field experience . . .
With just three eyepieces - the 24mm Panoptic and the 9- and 2.5-mm Naglers - I spent hours wandering the Milky Way from Sagittarius to Cassiopeia."

    A review of the TV-60 on The Telescope Review Web Site on 2/1/04 said, "The scope has impressive optics . . .
No false color was noted. At only 15X (with a 24 mm Panoptic) Titan could be seen as a tiny pinpoint dot next to the planet. You can see Cassini's Division on Saturn at 70x (with a 5 mm Type 6 Nagler) . . .
The Trapezium was easily resolved . . .
Castor is an easy split. Most impressively, the scope split Rigel, again at 70X. On deep sky, you have to make some allowances for the small aperture. M35 is just starting to resolve, but the other nearby clusters (M37, M36, M38) look like similar faint smudges in the eyepiece. Not exciting, but again, we're only talking about a 60 mm telescope here . . .
I once heard small scopes like this described as "One-Hour Telescopes." You get to see pretty much everything you want to see in about an hour. As such, the TV-60 is a great quick peek or travel scope."