How are 'standard' Celestron eyepieces?

Im looking for a reasonable eyepiece in the 15mm range. On astromart Ive
seen a lot of people selling entire ranges of Celestron ep, i.e 4,6,9,15. I
believe these are ones that are included with a number of scopes.

Are they crap?

Are they crap?


Hi:

No. They are garden variety Chinese plossls, no better nor worse than those
sold by Meade (as the current "Super Plossls"), Orion, or anybody else. Good,
for the money, decently sharp, but not as good as the TeleVue plossls--which
cost about twice as much or more. You're seeing full sets because people are
taking advantage of the Celestron "eyepiece deal" and selling what they don't
need.


Peace,
Rod Mollise
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Rod Mollise wrote:


Are they crap?


Hi:

No. They are garden variety Chinese plossls, no better nor worse than those

Well, they're from taiwan, actually.

sold by Meade (as the current "Super Plossls"), Orion, or anybody else. Good,
for the money, decently sharp, but not as good as the TeleVue plossls--which
cost about twice as much or more. You're seeing full sets because people are
taking advantage of the Celestron "eyepiece deal" and selling what they don't
need.

I have the Celestron "eyepiece deal." I like them. I won't be able to
justify purchase of a $600 Nagler "holy hand grenade" to my wife for
awhile, since my telescope is a $159 (with coupon) Costco Nexstar 114GT.

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Pat O'Connell
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Well, they're from taiwan, actually.

Hi:

That's "China" last time I checked. :-)

Seriously, thanks, Pat. Last I'd been told they were from the mainland via
Synta.

Peace,
Rod Mollise
Author of _Choosing and Using a Schmidt Cassegrain Telescope_
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Rod Mollise wrote:

Well, they're from taiwan, actually.

Hi:

That's "China" last time I checked. :-)

Seriously, thanks, Pat. Last I'd been told they were from the mainland via
Synta.

Well, it wouldn't be the first time that something's point of origin has
been mismarked (accidentally or deliberately--think of Usa, Japan), but the
eyepieces (and the Barlow and filters) are marked "Taiwan" in white
letters, and the people on that island draw a distinction. Anyway, they're
decent eyepieces.

--
Pat O'Connell
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Take nothing but pictures, Leave nothing but footprints,
Kill nothing but vandals...

Well, it wouldn't be the first time that something's point of origin has
been mismarked (accidentally or deliberately--think of Usa, Japan)

you know thats an urban myth right? while there is a town in japan called
usa, it was so named well before the war and goods have to be marked with
the country of manufacture anyways, not just the town name.

dave