I saw some fantastic views of the Moon last night. In terms of my experience so far with these filters, I can say that with the Moon, I was justified in getting both the polarizer and the 3x Barlow. I had a spot for the Variable Polarizer filter and the 3x Barlow. I ended up taking a pair of 85 cent scissors to the foam, cutting out a small rectangle for the Moon filter, allowing me to carry everything in the same case. That gave me room to align all the filter cases inside the same square. I didn’t have enough room in the Celestron case to fit everything in, so the first thing I did was pull out one of the color filters I thought I would never use. FWIW, the 3x Barlow is a #128 Meade telenegative Barlow. It also allows me to swap views between eyepieces already inserted into one of the two.
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Now, while most people will say power isn’t everything and while I do have optics that take me down to 6mm, plus whatever the 2x Barlow gives me, I could really use the 3x on my 32mm and 25mm eyepieces to speed things along, especially on Jupiter, Saturn, and the Moon. The one other item I talked myself into getting was a 3x Barlow. Opinions vary on these filters and it sounded as though the Sky Glow filter was the least liked, but for the price, getting all of the good filters in one inexpensive package was worth it to a beginner like me. The filters included were a UHC filter, an O-III filter, an Urban Sky (Sky-Glow) Filter, and the Variable Polarizing filter. So many other astronomers recommended UHC filters, O-III filters, and a few recommended some kind of light pollution filter.Ī quick search online revealed an inexpensive option that gave all of those items to me, the Zhumell SEE IT ALL filter kit. With all of that filter brouhaha and additional reading which told me a polarizer filter would help both with Moon views and Jupiter, that got added to the list. The Moon filter was really the only filter I kept grabbing. I found that the color filters were largely useless, but if I do decide to spend an inordinate amount of time examining Jupiter, Saturn, or even the Moon, some of those filters might improve my overall experience. That kit wasn’t enough for me, even with all of that. The case itself looked sturdy and it even came with a set of keys so that it can be locked.
The kit also included a whole bunch of color filters and one Moon filter. It came with numerous eyepieces which cover a wide range of magnifications, but it also included a 2x Barlow. So the Celestron kit seemed like a smart buy. People also purchased books and other optics. One of those items, a very common purchase, was the Celestron Accessory Kit. Amazon usually recommends what other people bought along with something. One of the difficult decisions after adding the Orion XT8 to the online shopping cart was what I’d get to go with it.
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