Celestron X-CEL LX 18 mm Series Eyepiece, Black, 1.25"

After my recent Celesteon telescope purchase, I couldn’t find a lens with a decent quality. To my surprise this product is worth for money spent on it.

High magnification not useful for general

For the price range, it is sleek, minimal and good build quality. Sturdy in the hand but not too heavy. At 32mm, this eyepiece is a great starting point when scrolling the skies with my Nexstar 5SE and gives a crisp, focused image.

The images are blurred. I spent a lot of time trying to focus on Jupiter and Saturn, that I could see clearly with other eyepieces, but couldn't achieve focus.Further more, the magnification was slightly larger than the image produced by a 10mm eyepiece, leading me to think that this could not possibly be a 4mm eyepiece.

I chose the the 18mm eyepiece as it gives good magnification for deep sky objects such as galaxies and planetary nebulae. My new telescope is a Celestron NexStar SLT 127mm. It has a focal length of 1500mm, so the magnification is 1500 divided by 18 = 83 times. The eyepiece is much better than the two standard eyepieces that came with the scope, both in field size, ( difficult to judge as the two that came were 25 & 9 mm.)and also field clarity, ( more easily judged.) I live in the north of Scotland where we are blessed with little light polution, however at this time of year, June, the skies never get dark. Despite this the 18mm eyepiece works well at spliting double stars i was particularly pleased to split Polaris, it has a fairly wide seperation of 18.4 seconds of an arc but the primary is very bright 2.0, and the companion dim 9.0. As the experience has been so good i intend to buy the entire range of Celestron X-Cel eyepieces over the next few years, without going below 5mm, ( my telescopes 300 times magnification limit ) making the 12mm eyepiece my next purchace. Philips " Stargazing with a Telescope " by Robin Scagell, says : "Top of the accessories list is extra eyepieces." I recommend the 18mm X-Cel LX Eyepiece.I bought the eyepiece from Amazon. It arrived promptly despite my remote UK location. Amazon are one off very few companies that do not add hefty postage charges to the Highlands and Islands of Scotland.

So impressed I also have Pentax 3.5 eyepieces I can't get over how much zoom they actually have just as the sun was going down could pick out a person pitching a tent to do a spot of night fishing about 2 1/2 miles away Massey well worth the money and well done celestron really recommend these 7 mm eyepieces you will not be disappointed

Now that i have it I would not do with out it.This celestron 12mm eyepiece is essential in my opinion for anyonewho has a Celestron S.C.T. astro telescope.It is an excellent mid order between high and low power eyepiece.The definition and clarity is superb with generous eye relief.X-CEL LX SERIES 12mm are worth considering.

This was bloody perfect! Great detail, great field of view and the telescopic lense makes it very easy to take pictures with your mobile...The difference between the standard lenses that came with my scope and this, is phenomenal! (Check pictures) Absolutely LOVE this product, worth every penny! Thank you!