![]() ![]() This made the telescope both more enjoyable and more useful. a $25 investment, if you don't have one of these laying around). Now, since I also own other optical instruments (for professionals), I matched a low quality 25mm wide angle microscope eyepiece to the instrument (that's approx. Anything above 100 times magnification is complete nonsense, not to mention that you couldn't find what you are looking for without a precision mount to begin with. that is more than beyond the useful range of even the best instrument with 114mm aperture. I never tried the 2x focal length extender. Even the 12mm eyepiece was, in my opinion useless and I couldn't properly focus the 9mm and shorter ones, at all. 600-800mm, the effective magnifications is approx. Given the focal length of the primary mirror of approx. The only useful eyepiece that came with the "instrument" was the 20mm. To be honest with you, I was disappointed even for \$10. ![]() I bought one of these toys a month ago for \$10 at a thrift store to get a first hand experience of the "quality". The sad reality is, that you can't see much of interest beyond the moon, and even that is, IMHO more enjoyable with cheap binoculars. This really doesn't belong here, but I will answer anyway, because I don't like to see people being ripped off by the kind of cheap toy telescope that you seem to be referring to (at least that's what showed up when I entered your description into google). ![]()
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