Reviews & Ratings for Explore Scientific 12in/305mm Truss Tube Dobsonian Telescope — 3 review — Page 1

No eyepieces included. So, I happily get 2 choose my own selections with this baby beast telescope. What fun!! I had no idea of eyepiece prices until I picked up astronomy again, moving up a notch. Some eyepieces contain multiple lenses & weigh as much as a pound r more! Some inexpensive pieces have surprisingly nice optics thanks 2 modern technology & humble but dignified love & labor. My present eyepiece collection: Set of 3 aspheric type 1.25" (5mm 10mm & 23mm); a 2" TPO Superview 50mm Wide View; a 1.25" Orion Edge On Planetary 5mm; a 1.25" Celestron Luminous 10mm; & a 1.25" Celestron Omni Barlow lens. I am pleased with all & will acquire others n time. The Orion Nebula looks fantastic using this awesome telescope & my Celestron Luminous eyepiece with it's huge 86 degree viewing field! The great nebula fully occupies the field as a whispy, lovely mares tail with it's star groups contained. The moon is an awesome sight thru it's phases, endless, everchanging countless features, craters within craters, rays, protruding mountains, vast smooth lava fields, shadowed valleys, cracks & fissures. If it only rotated! The moon will nearly blind U using this scope. A variable adjustment filter is best for viewing the moon because U can dial the level of brightness 2 perfection. A Barlow lens doubles r more the power of each eyepiece. I unscrew the lens from my Barlow tube & screw it directly N2 any 1.25" eyepiece thus increasing the power by maybe 25 or 30% giving extra varie...
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