Celestron Accessory Kit
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List Price: $224.95
Your Price:
$112.50
-- saving you 50 percent
Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Height: 5.70 inches
Width: 11.70 inches
Length: 13.20 inches
Weight: 5.00 pounds
Model: 94303
Manufacturer: Celestron
Lens Type: normal
Telescope Type: other-telescope-accessories
Model SKU: B00006RH5I
Great Deal!
by Boris Mauricio Bossio Velasquez
from Caracas, Venezuela,
2010-03-02
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.
Eh... I guess if you have money to waste
by Matthew K. Weideman
from Glendale, AZ United States,
2010-01-07
The kit is overpriced. The 4mm eyepiece that comes with it is completely unusable. The eye relief (the space between your eye and the eyepiece) requires you to push your eyeball into the lens. As a matter of fact, nearly all of the eyepieces have horrible eye relief. The one I use most from the kit is the 9mm lens. You have to be pretty close to the opening in order to see anything. All of the eyepieces feel cheap. It seems like they're made in China - completely out of plastic. A few times, pulling the protective cover off of the 9mm, I felt as if I was going to break it. The barlow suffers from the same problem. It's cheap. But at least it's decent. Optically, it's alright. I could see paying $20 for one.
The case everything comes in is actually really nice. It's well built, kind of tough, and has ample space in it. You could easily add a few more eyepieces. Of everything that came with the kit, I plan on holding on to the case for sure. 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. It cut down on the brightness but gave the moon a slight blue tinge. The picture I took looks like it's in grey scale. Before, the moon was way too bright to snap a picture of, so I guess that's one reason to use a filter. I tried out a few more and I don't think I liked them. 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.
If I could do it over again, I'd probably only buy two or three really nice eye pieces. My 6se came with a 25mm. 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. An X-Cel 10mm lens costs $50, a better quality barlow will set you back $35. Already, you'd have a nice set of magnifications with real quality eyepieces that's 40-50 dollars less than the kit. 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. I guarantee it. If you wanted to splurge, you could get a wide view eyepiece for $120. After viewing a few messier objects, I'm going to want one.
In conclusion, skip the kit. Figure out which eyepiece you'll want by taking the focal length of your scope and dividing it by the eyepiece. For instance, my scope is a Celestron 6se. It's focal length is 1500mm. So, we find that with the included eyepiece, it has a magnification of 60x. With a 10mm eyepiece, you'll get 150x. With the barlow, you can get 120x and 300x (probably pushing it). You now have a good range of magnifications to see just about anything in the night's sky. If you choose to spend a little more and get a wide field lens as well, you'll be loving life.
You get what you pay for I guess
by Patches
,
2009-08-14
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. 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 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.
So much for the price.
by Baby Astronomer
,
2009-08-03
Since I am a beginner I occasionally use this. But, I keep thinking of purchasing eyepieces of higher grades in the future. Optical qualites are fairly limited. The extreme small ones are too dark to use. It might be better to purchase 15mm and Barlow(sp?) lens seperately.
Great Price!
by J. Benson
from FLA,
2009-07-16
You just can't beat the price! Wait they just did! I paid a little over 120 and they just dropped it 5. Great case. Eyepieces all work great and you get the filters also. Has extra room for your other eyepieces. I highly recommend this for all beginners like me,