Meade PL 5mm Eyepiece (1.25")

by Meade

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B00004VUMB
• Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes
• Date first available at Amazon.com: August 8, 2000

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

The Meade Plossl 5mm eyepiece offers a magnifying power of 70x. It is specifically designed for detailed imaging of the moon and planets. It fits Meade telescopes.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very usable, May 29, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Meade PL 5mm Eyepiece (1.25") (Electronics)

As is normal magnification = tube focal lenght / eyepiece focal length. You can see from the simple equation that this will give you good magnification, and it is a little more forgiving that a 4mm, and has a better magnification than a a larger eye piece. Being the standard 1.25" means that this eyepiece can be used by many telescopes, but keep in mind what it is designed for. I would say use this for zooming in to what you want to see close, but keep a larger mm eyepiece handy for just general panning around.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Probably not what you want, November 26, 2001

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Dr. Beer (Steubenville, OH United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Meade PL 5mm Eyepiece (1.25") (Electronics)

I love the ETX 70, it's a cheap but good rich field telescope. But this isn't the best way to improve it. There are two problems really. The first is that the ETX 70 doesn't take this much magnification very well for various reasons, both optical and mechanical. The other is that the quality of this eyepiece is not good. Admittedly it's cheap, but for only a little more, you can buy a good quality orthoscopic (I'd recommmend a bit longer focal length). Or buy a barlow that doubles the magnification of your supplied 9mm eyepiece (so you can see for yourself what I mean about too much magnification) but also doubles your supplied 25mm to a very useful 28x so you don't waste your money.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars horrible, December 16, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Meade PL 5mm Eyepiece (1.25") (Electronics)

This eyepiece has such bad eye-relief that even if you push it into your eyesocket as hard as you can, you still can't see full field of view. the actual glass is only half the size of my 3.6 mm celestron nexstar pl. Also the quality of view(what little you can see of it with such small eye-relief that is) is also the worst i have seen in any eyepiece including some realy cheap eyepieces i have.