Celestron X-Cel 5mm Eyepiece Reviews

Celestron X-Cel 5mm Eyepiece Telescope

Product Type: Celestron telescopes

Newest Review: ... feel like you're looking through a pin prick, this can cause headaches and eye strain and is clearly undesirable. The X-Cel ... more

 ... doesn't suffer from this problem and is very comfortable to look through. It also features a very generous 20mm of eye relief. Eye relief being the distance one must position ones head away from the lens to see the whole image. Due to the eye relief this eyepiece is suitable for people who wear glasses. Optically the X-Cel performs well for it's price range (£60). Special low dispersion glass has been used on the most curved lenses to minimise light scatter and other abberations. Each lens element has been fully mult...more

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Celestron X-Cel 5mm Eyepiece: X-Cellent!!! (583 words)
by - written on 25/10/10 (Very useful, 158 readings)
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The Celestron X-Cel 5mm is a high powered eyepiece for planetary and Lunar viewing. The 5mm focal length makes for a high magnification whether your using a fast, slow, long or short telescope. Unlike the majority of eyepieces out there Celestron have used 6 lenses (or elements as they're known) in the X-Cel's manufacture. Most eyepieces use 4 or a maximum of 5 lenses as generally the fewer elements there are in an optical system the clearer and sharper the image will be. The extra elements have not been introduced to increase field of view (as may be expected), the field is only 55 degrees. The reason for the added glass is to increase the objective ...  Read the complete review