Celestron Signature Series Moon By Robert Reeves Features A Superb Moon Astronomical Telescope, Black (22016)

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You’ll also enjoy using the FirstScope to pan the Milky Way, explore open star clusters, marvel at Saturn’s rings, or view favourite deep-sky objects like the Orion Nebula. I may have to try the modified achromat eyepieces supplied with skywatcher scopes and see how much better they do. Products shown, tagged or featured on YouTube by creators are sold by merchants and are subject to merchant's terms and conditions. The FirstScope Accessory Kit expands the capabilities of your FirstScope telescope to make it more enjoyable and easier to use, enhance your views of the night sky, and make it safer to transport wherever you go. The 5x24 finderscope provided with the bracket, facilitates the fast and accurate location of astronomical observations.

Lastly, the widest components of the golden double star Algieba in Leo were clearly seen, but the primary star itself was not split, even at 100x. Now, Celestron is using that same technology to allow star gazers to connect to the night sky and enhance their experience of the cosmos in fun and unique ways.As the name implies, Celestron’s FirstScope is designed to be a budding astronomer’s first telescope. Celestron has joined forces with master lunar imager Robert Reeves on this addition to the beloved FirstScope family: the FirstScope Signature Series: Moon by Robert Reeves. Nylon Carrying Bag for FirstScope Telescope – Pack your FirstScope telescope and accessories in this tote bag for easy and safe transportation.

Transmission is about 18% The Moon has the distinction of being the most often viewed celestial object through backyard telescopes.Unfortunately, it’s the lack of accessories (such as the lunar filter, decent eyepieces and finderscope) that let the FirstScope down and could result in the young astronomer becoming frustrated and losing interest. It is very easy to observe with, the user simply navigates the night sky by moving the tube in the direction of their desired object, making the viewing experience a snap! Robert Reeves' signature FirstScope comes with a custom wrap that highlights 10 lunar features to explore, including Tycho, Plato, and Copernicus.

A must-have accessory that’s sometimes provided with some scopes, it attaches to an eyepiece and reduces the light from the Moon, thereby making for a more comfortable viewing experience. The optics are of high quality and are mounted on a stable base making the telescope ideal for magnified observing of the Moon, planets and terrestrial objects. Saturn was small, faint and fuzzy in the field of view, yet it was possible to make out the gas giant's rings and yellow coloration.While the FirstScope is hardly the most expensive on the market, this seems like cost-cutting to an almost unnecessary extreme. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. The box is also pretty sturdy and should hold up well in transit, even if it’s not inside a larger container. Visible as a bright white "star" to the unaided eye, we hoped for good views through the FirstScope — but, as suspected, we didn't see a great deal of detail with glare making it difficult to distinguish a phase. You’ll probably need to read it twice, but in essence it translate to “point it at what you want to look at, then move it around until you can see it through the eyepiece.