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- Includes 2 elements
- High resolution
- Doubles magnifying power
- For use with an eyepiece
- Color corrects
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Price: $59.99 |
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| Amazon.com Product Description |
| The Meade 124 2x Barlow Lens doubles the magnifying power of your eyepiece. Each lens includes two optical elements for high-resolution, color-corrected imaging. |
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| Optics Reviews Writed by Customer
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Great addition
2002-05-29
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| It really works as advertised and is a wonderful addition to any lens collection. |
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Adequate on the ETX90-EC
2002-05-24
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| The Meade 124 2x Barlow Lens certainly zooms in a lot closer to the viewed object. It's difficult for an amatuer like me to say for sure if it actually doubles the magnification, I'll have to rely on Meades assurances for that. It's a useful addition for the ETX90 but it does have some drawbacks. The light gathering capabilities of the ETX90 restrict the magnification you can use to certain limits. To high a magnification and things start getting blurry. I have 26mm, 15mm and 9.7mm meade eyepieces in my collection. The 26mm is my most frequently used. I use the barlow mostly with the 26mm and occasionally with the 15 and 9.7. However, only in most steadiest of conditions do I get good results with the barlow and 15 and 9.7 combinations. Most of the time I get a much clearer view with the eyepiece alone. Things just get less defined with the barlow and higher power eyepieces combinations. Having said that, the barlow does give you a better range of magnifications and finding the most suitable one for a given situation is more likely. I use the barlow both for planetary and deep space viewing and find I have to adjust the focusing when putting in and taking out the barlow, which is a nuisance. I'm not convinced that the Meade Barlow I have is up to the standard of their other eyepieces in my collection as it seems to have some minute abberations on the lens itself. This is quite possible unique to mine, I'm not sure. Despite the above negatives, the Barlow is worth having with the ETX-90 and probably much more useful on the ETX-105 and 125. Recommended, but inspect and test your barlow on receipt of it and let Meade know immediately if it is not up to standard. Clear skies everyone. |
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tight fit
2001-10-22
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| Love the 2X barlow lens. It performs as stated by Meade. All lenses used in conjuntion with the Barlow are doubled I saw no degredation of objects viewed at all. The lens fit very tight in my first telescope but perfectly in my second. |
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A benefit to any collection of eyepieces
2001-08-31
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| The 2x Barlow lens practically doubbles your eyepiece collection. it mounts easily to any telescope and effectivly dobble the magnification of your current eyepiece. It is great for viewing planets and closer objects, when used with somewhat powerfull eyepieces on deep-space objects, the objects become really faint and hard to see. The lens comes in a convienient storage contianer and fits in any of the carrying cases. |
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ETX-90 plus this lens
2001-06-19
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| As expected the Meade 2X Barlow appears to double the power on my Meade ETX-90 but it also slightly fuzzes the image. It's interesting to use this lens but it's definately not a show stopper. |
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