Shayner2005

I don't think I can unscrew it. When I had done the math, the 9mm eyepiece was ~70x magnification, at 3x I figured I'd be around 200x. Appreciate the advice. Any tips on eyepieces I should try for planetary and some DSO viewing?

I usually do that to calibrate the spotter scope, but I usually only use the 25mm lense and that looks ok. Even when I just look at the moon, everything is nice and crisp with both the 25mm and 9mm.

The stock eyepieces do alright looking at the moon. They leave something to be desired looking at anything else in my opinion. With the 9mm I can see Jupiter and the gallilean moons, although the planet itself is too bright, and just barely make out Saturn's rings. Mars appears as just a red dot. I want to say that the focuser was in the middle, but I could be mistaken. I tried the straight-though mode, but it didn't seem to be any better. I did not try putting the barlow before the diagonal.

Hi all! I'm having issues with my lenses on my celestron 102slt. I bought a celestron x-cel 3x barlow to use with the stock 9mm and 25mm eyepieces. However, I can't get it to focus with either combination of lenses with the barlow; I can get close, but it runs out of focus the other way, almost as if I don't have a fine enough focus control. I've tried different targets with each of the stock eyepieces with the barlow. I've been trying to get a good look at mars right now, but I can't get more any detail at all. Even with Jupiter, it seems I cant get any detail with any of the combinations either. Thanks