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Really cool kit to enhace the real power of any mid-range telescope. Good quality lenses. Superb filters.What else must I write.Uhmmm.what are u waiting for. you won't regret this purchase.
A few times, pulling the protective cover off of the 9mm, I felt as if I was going to break it. It cut down on the brightness but gave the moon a slight blue tinge. It's cheap. But at least it's decent. You have to be pretty close to the opening in order to see anything. I'm not sure of why or what I should use the filters for. After some reading of the instructions, I discovered I should use the lunar filter (it's blue) to take a picture of the moon with my cell phone. Already, you'd have a nice set of magnifications with real quality eyepieces that's 40-50 dollars less than the kit.
So then I'd get a 10mm X-Cel eyepiece (with more eye relief), a barlow lens, and maybe a wide field eyepiece from Celestron's Ultima LX series. I could see paying $20 for one. The barlow suffers from the same problem. As a matter of fact, nearly all of the eyepieces have horrible eye relief.
It seems like they're made in China - completely out of plastic. You could easily add a few more eyepieces. It's well built, kind of tough, and has ample space in it. If I could do it over again, I'd probably only buy two or three really nice eye pieces.
The kit is overpriced. It's focal length is 1500mm. My 6se came with a 25mm. I guarantee it. An X-Cel 10mm lens costs $50, a better quality barlow will set you back $35. In conclusion, skip the kit.
With a 10mm eyepiece, you'll get 150x. Optically, it's alright. The one I use most from the kit is the 9mm lens. I'm sure some people know how to use them, but I don't see myself getting much milage out of them for the time being. The eye relief (the space between your eye and the eyepiece) requires you to push your eyeball into the lens. You'll get tons more use out of just those two eyepieces (plus the lens included with your scope) than you will with the kit. The case everything comes in is actually really nice. Figure out which eyepiece you'll want by taking the focal length of your scope and dividing it by the eyepiece.
You now have a good range of magnifications to see just about anything in the night's sky. The 4mm eyepiece that comes with it is completely unusable. After viewing a few messier objects, I'm going to want one. If you wanted to splurge, you could get a wide view eyepiece for $120. I tried out a few more and I don't think I liked them. With the barlow, you can get 120x and 300x (probably pushing it). Before, the moon was way too bright to snap a picture of, so I guess that's one reason to use a filter. All of the eyepieces feel cheap.
So, we find that with the included eyepiece, it has a magnification of 60x. Of everything that came with the kit, I plan on holding on to the case for sure. The picture I took looks like it's in grey scale. For instance, my scope is a Celestron 6se. If you choose to spend a little more and get a wide field lens as well, you'll be loving life.
This kit may be alright for some, but I found them lacking in quality of fit and build and would not recommend them to anyone who has the desire to use the high-power eyepieces (9x, 6x, 4x, etc). I'm fairly new to astronomy, but I expected better quality when I purchased this eyepiece kit from Celestron. After reading some of the reviews here, I was convinced that these were going to be some decent eyepieces and filters. I bought these because of the low price tag, and for the most part, I regret not just buying one or two better quality eyepieces from Televue. The filters were really "cheap" too.
Since I am a beginner I occasionally use this. The extreme small ones are too dark to use. But, I keep thinking of purchasing eyepieces of higher grades in the future. Optical qualites are fairly limited. It might be better to purchase 15mm and Barlow(sp). lens seperately.
Great case. You just can't beat the price. Eyepieces all work great and you get the filters also. Wait they just did. I paid a little over 120 and they just dropped it 5. Has extra room for your other eyepieces. I highly recommend this for all beginners like me,
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