Celestron 8-24mm Eyepiece with 1-1/4" Mount

2021-05-12T12:13:16

This eyepiece is totally versatile and is a great buy for what it does. I am just getting into astronomy and I'm sure I could spend much more for a professional grade eyepiece, but this more than serves my purposes.

MARK I.

2021-04-27T08:36:20

Great eyepiece. You get exactly what you pay for. Great for incredible views of the moon and other objects in the night sky.

Dakota W.

2021-02-16T06:03:42

It is fun seeing the moon with the 8mm zoom

Jonathan M.

2020-10-25T08:16:22

Awesome zoom eyepiece

Richard P.

2020-09-03T08:08:52

Great eyepiece at excellent price. Everyone should have one to get most out of your scope. Saves changing eyepieces to get closer views. Buy one before the price changes!

JOSEPH W.

2019-09-11T08:45:39

Good eyepiece. It does the work of 2 separate eyepieces when doing an alignment with my telescope.

Billie M.

2018-08-10T08:58:40

My most used eyepiece, if I only had one , I’d use this one ! Perfect? No! Use it nearly every time ? Yes

FLOYD W.

2018-08-03T09:07:41

I have only used this eyepiece once to view Mars and to tell the truth I was very surprised at how well it worked. I could all but get a full view of mars using my Celeron Nexstar 6 SL 1500mm scope had I added a 2 times barlow to my rig I could have filled my eyepiece with mars and not seen the planet as a whole.

William F.

2017-08-04T09:30:00

Our astronomy club is using them on modified library program telescopes so we need a reliable and versatile eyepiece and find this one hits the mark for price and quality.

Cynthia R.

2017-01-08T08:33:28

I actually bought this eyepiece for my wife to use on her small refractor. We've used it to look at the moon and Jupiter, some birds, and people hiking to the top of a mountain peak about five miles distant. We haven't had chance to use it at a really dark site for astronomy yet. The eyepiece functions well, has good eye relief, and appears to be well made. The eye lens is nice and big contributing to comfortable viewing. Zooming to different powers is a little tight, but that should improve with use. Now this is not a top of the line eyepiece (Zeiss, Kowa, Swarovski, Leica), but for the price it is very good value indeed. Recommended.

MICHAEL B.

2014-07-02T21:00:00

This really speeds up the task of alignment and being able to zoom in at will. Huge time saver and the images are sharp.

J

2014-03-17T21:00:00

Great to change the magnification and dial to the sharpest view. I didn't notice any difference when compared to the views of my regular eyepieces. Good for the moon, planets, double starts, Orion nebula. Worth having and eliminate the need to switch eyepieces.

Alberto

2013-02-04T19:00:00

Good travel buddy with light-weight refractors.

Kevin C.

2013-01-28T19:00:00

Generally good with my Nexstar 5SE. A bit difficult to find the best focus at 8mm, but this should be more a problem of atmospheric turbulence than the optics of the zoom lens. At 24mm down to 12mm it is crystal clear.

Kevin C.

2013-01-03T19:00:00

I dont suppose there is much room for complaints at this price range however I would have expected some type of "click stop" at some points through-out the zoom. Without this, any attemp to figure magnification would be a guess, at best. The veiw quality is acceptable but I will say that this Zoom piece will not be used as often as I had hoped. Not a bad product in its price range and bottom line is Yes I would probly recommend to any beginner with a modest scope and/or ep selection.

Joe C.

2012-07-04T21:00:00

Not crazy about this EP. Big advantage is being able to hook your DSLR to it directly. Sharpness just ok at 24mm but significantly deteriorates 15 to 8mm. There seems to be a 'hole' around 18mm where huge loss of light occurs. As usual, top quality at low price does not exist in optics. D.

Dennys

2011-11-20T19:00:00

works great on all my telescopes

Ed

2011-09-09T21:00:00

No need for a bunch of high power eyepieces, specially when doing outreach where people asks -Can I see it bigger? Nice field of view and good quality, but keep in mind that because phisical light properties, only the center field of view has good focus on the lower mm setting and you loose sharpness. To avoid the outreach public to touch the focuser of my SCT, I use the zoom eyepiece as fine focuser for personal eye ajustment. But...All they want to see is: BIGGER!

HELLEN S.

2009-02-20T19:00:00

It saves me from having to change eyepieces and loose my target. And it's just so easy to use

Jack