Joe beaumont

Hi all, I have a celestron nexstar 8se and was wondering how important it is to get a dew shield and also what is the best f6.3 focal reducer to buy at a reasonable price thank you all.

Hi all so I have used my solar filter with my 25mm eyepiece on my nexstar 8se, I used it about 1:30 in the afternoon so not best time for observing the sun but I noticed that it is really zoomed in and wonder what would be better to buy, 32mm eyepiece, 45mm eyepiece or a f6.3 focal reducer thank you all Joe

Thank you for your help Ed and everyone who commented, I’m gonna try the 25mm eyepiece and keep youse updated with my results when the filter arrives Joe

Yeah I think I might have been too far away from the eyepiece I will be sure to try the moon when we next have a clear sky thanks all joe

I have recently bought a celestron nexstar 8se and tonight I thought I would try and use it with this new iPhone holder to get some pictures through my phone and I have this bright circle that I see on my iPhone but when you look through the eyepiece it is fine. Could someone help me with this as I’m not sure if I’m doing something wrong, I have left a couple of pictures below. Seeing conditions also were very poor it was really cloudy and had to wait for clouds to pass to quickly get a snap shot thank you joe

Hi everyone I have recently purchased a celestron nexstar 8se as an upgrade from my 4se but when I looked at Mars today Mars was very fuzzy and very difficult to get perfect focus, if anyone could help me to see why this was I would be very grateful thank you joe

Hi all I have recently just bought a celestron nexstar 8se which came with a celestron skyportal WiFi but I’m not to sure what the use of the skyportal is, if someone could explain what I can use it for and it’s purpose I would be very grateful Thanks Joe

So what would be a good sized eyepiece for planetary viewing with an 4se/8se scope

What are the seben zooms like?

Hi there, why would this be? thank you

Thank you everyone

Hi all sorry my scope is a celestron nexstar 4se but am looking to upgrade to maybe an 8se and mainly looking for planets or maybe galaxies and nebula if possible but mainly planets thank you

Hi everyone I’m looking in to buying a zoom eyepiece and was wondering which zoom eyepiece is best thank you Joe

Thank you very much

Thank you, what focal reducer is good within a decent price range Thanks Joe