Can someone help me find eye pieces for the Celestron C6-NGT?

Question

I'm looking for eye pieces for my Celestron C6-NGT telescope. I've tried looking for some but i haven't had much luck. If anyone can help me find some eye pieces and possibly give me some places to look for them it would be much help.

Answer 1

Your telescope will take standard 1 1/4" astronomical eyepieces, of which there are hundreds available from any good astronomy store. Orion is a good place to start: http://www.telescope.com/control/categor...

Answer 2

This 750mm focal length telescope uses standard 1.25in diameter eyepieces. New, this scope ships with a 20mm eyepiece.  You can order an eyepiece from a variety of online astronomy vendors ... some leading firms include: orion, astronomics, anacortes, oceanside photo & telescope, scope city, adorama, B&H photo.

Used gear - sold mostly by amateur astronomers - is available on the cloudynights.com and astromart.com websites.

The 20mm eyepiece will give you low-power (750mm/20 = 38x) wide-field views.  I'd also suggest another at 6-10mm for (750/6=125x to 750/10=75x) more magnification to look at the moon and planets (Jupiter is bright in the southeast at sunset).

I'd suggest only 2-3 "good" eyepieces (new ~$30ea and up) instead of more cheaper eyepieces.

I would pick the following focal lengths:

2 eyepieces: 26-34mm, 8-12mm

3 eyepieces: 32-40mm, 12-16mm, 5-8mm

One other approach is to take your scope to a local astronomy club's public skygazing night ... people will certainly be willing to help you and will probably let you try out some eyepieces (before you buy 1 or more).

Good luck, and enjoy!  (I'm happy to answer other questions if you want to contact me directly.)