Reviews - Celestron Telescopes Barlow Lenses Reviews - CI-TA-BARLOW-LNS-93506

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Celestron Telescopes Barlow Lenses Barlow lenses offer an easy, economical way to increase the magnification range of your eyepieces, and Celestron carries two of these highly useful lenses. A Barlow lens doubles the magnifying power of your eyepiece by doubling its effective focal length. For example, an 18mm eyepiece used with a 2x Barlow lens would have the magnifying power of a 9mm eyepiece. It's like having two eyepieces in one! If you're looking for an affordable way to achieve high-power viewing of the moon and planets, double stars and even close-up views of terrestrial subjects, Celestron 2x-1-1/4" Barlow lens is the answer. ...  
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Average Ratings
Overall rating
4.8 / 5
Easy To Set Up4.5 / 5
Usability4.8 / 5
Features4.5 / 5
Value for your money4.8 / 5
Meets expectations4.8 / 5

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Celestron Ultima Series Barlow (2x - 1-1/4")

Product Ratings:
Overall rating:
5 / 5
Easy To Set Up:5 / 5
Features:5 / 5
Meets expectations:5 / 5
Usability:5 / 5
Value for your money:5 / 5

Author: chuckhawks (verified customer) , Owner/Managing Editor of the online Photography and Astronomy Information Guide, from Creswell, Oregon on Aug 13, 2009
Pros:  A high quality Barlow that minimized image degradation
Cons:  Any 2x Barlow lens reduces the light to your eye to only 1/4 of what you started with and degrades the image quality of your ocular
Would recommend:  yes

chuckhawks wrote:

This 1.25" Celestron 2x Ultima Barlow does what Barlows do and does it well. Specifically, it halves the effective focal length of your ocular. To do so, any Barlow lens reduces the amount of light reaching your eye to only 25%--this is a mathmatical equation and there is no way around it. Celestron's Ultima Barlow is a good one, fully multi-coated and apochromatic. It uses an air-spaced, 3-element design and features a 27mm clear aperture. It is compact (2.75" long) and weighs only 5 ounces, so it should not be an excessive burden for your focuser. I tested the Ultima Barlow using my Celestron 102mm ED refractor (900mm focal length) with a number of oculars, including a 25mm Celestron X-Cel, 17mm Celestron Plossl, 14mm TeleVue Radian, 12mm Celestron Ortho and 9mm Burgess Planetary. It worked satisfactorily with all of these, especially the 12mm ortho and the Plossls. In each case it degraded the image slightly, but was never intrusive. One advantage to a good Barlow lens is ...
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2X barlow

Product Ratings:
Overall rating:
5 / 5
Easy To Set Up:5 / 5
Features:5 / 5
Meets expectations:5 / 5
Usability:5 / 5
Value for your money:5 / 5

Author: hwfitzjr from Clayton, NC on May 31, 2009
Pros:  Good value for the money
Cons:  None
Would recommend:  yes

hwfitzjr wrote:

I use this Barlow to magnify object I am photographing and it works very well.

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Like buying several new eyepeices!

Product Ratings:
Overall rating:
5 / 5
Easy To Set Up:5 / 5
Features:5 / 5
Meets expectations:5 / 5
Usability:5 / 5
Value for your money:5 / 5

Author: xbbrown (verified customer) , Amature / Enthusiast, from Cocoa Beach, FL on Apr 30, 2009
Pros:  Quality build
Cons:  None
Would recommend:  yes

xbbrown wrote:

Fit and finish are excellent, optics are great. Its just what I wanted.

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Celestron X2 Barlow

Product Ratings:
Overall rating:
4 / 5
Easy To Set Up:3 / 5
Features:3 / 5
Meets expectations:4 / 5
Usability:4 / 5
Value for your money:4 / 5

Author: Paul from Cragford, Al on Apr 26, 2009
Pros:  reasonably priced
Would recommend:  yes

Paul wrote:

Works well with my 8" Dobsonian. Salesperson recommended that i purchase and I'm glad that he did. Works well...

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