Celestron 8-24mm Zoom Telescope Eyepiece Review - Celestron Zoom vs Baader Zoom!!!
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- Опубліковано 3 сер 2024
- Wondering if the Celestron 8-24mm Zoom is any good? How does it compare to the Baader zoom? This is the video for you!
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I've had the Celestron Zoom for about 2 months now, like it a lot. Perfect for offering a range of incrumental focal lengths to match seeing conditions and target. Nice video🙂
Glad you like your Celestron zoom! Like I said in the video it certainly does fulfil the utility of a zoom EP.
Every time I watch one of your videos the skies are always clear and blue!. It makes me cry here in the UK😭
Lol, here in the NW it's typically pretty cloudy and rainy. But I guess everything is relative...
Just bought the mark iv as a gift for a First eyepiece for a relative who bought her first scope, a little Astro Tech 80mm ed. Thanks for the review.
Glad to help👍
Thanks for doing this review. I will be investing in a zoom eyepiece when I upgrade from my 4.5 inch Newtonian EQ to a 12 inch Dob for ease of observing when I'm doing lunar work, maybe planetary too. Not sure if it will be the Celestron, Baader or Svbony yet but compiling data from reviews like this certainly helps.
Well in the end only you know what the right choice is for u👍
Great Review Vlad!
Glad u liked it!!! Thanks👍
Great review! I finally purchased the hyperion zoom to upgrade from my Apatura zoom and complete my hyperion set. Wish the set with the 2.5x barlow was in stock at the time. I haven't had a chance to use it yet but I'm sure with your reviews on it and owning the other Baader eyepieces in that line it'll be great. Also it comes with so many more options on ways to use it compared to most zooms i've seen.
Very cool, congrats!!!
Dzięki za informacje. Zastanawiam się nad kupnem a Twoje informacje będą pomocne podczas wyboru zakupu. Pozdrawiam serdecznie! 🔭😉🤚 🙂👍
Glad to hear it was helpful!
I had the celestron for a few years now. It came with one of my scopes. It works very well. My only complaint is that the zoom seems “backwards” to me. Maybe its just me, but i expect “leftie loosie, righty thight”, so clockwise should give me a “tighter” view or more zoom. But its actually the other way around.
Idk, maybe i’m special, but it catches me every time if i dont use it for a while.
Interesting observation on the zoom detection. I never thought of that!
Could you do a comparison of the Baader Mk IV and Tele Vue 3-6 mm zoom eye pieces? I read a lot about good reviews of the Tele Vue zoom, and it would be nice to see how the Baader zoom compare to that one. Thanks!
I used to own the 3-6mm TV Zoom over a decade ago. I'm actually curious to try one again. At the time for one reason or another I did not like it...
I have a Baader Mk IV and love it. Also have a svbony 7-21 for comparison purposes.
Question is: is there a better zoom than the Baader? I.e. quality, performance and value?
Not that I know of. Vlad.
The Pentax SMC 8-24mm Zoom is great and and just a little more than the Baader.
Hey Vlad, I have the baader zoom and I love it but I want another for a grab and go kit. Which one do you suggest, the svbony zoom or the celestron zoom?
I'd honestly do the Svbony as it's less expensive and at least as good as the Celestron👍
@@AVTAstro thanks for that. I hoped you would say something like that
I didn't care about a zoom, but I bought the Celestron on sale for $79 open box so I popped for it, but no returns on open box and I have the same issue as you and would have sent it back. This zoom is stiff, but not grating like yours is. I use Orthos so generally fov doesn't bother me EXCEPT at low powers and all zooms have a small fov there!🤣
Now my Celestron zoom has a pretty sharp picture in my really good scope, but is dimmer in my Maksutov which I will lay at the 1500 focal length.
Now with my Tele Vue 2x Barlow in my 150mm reflector it goes to town at 180x down to 32x if I wanted that. I use a 25 ED to find my targets and then put the zoom in at around 18mm. It is really clear and bright, that 96-97% reflective mirrors does that.
edit, the bottom is chrome plated brass and be careful zooming as I unscrewed the top, lens and all, not being careful where I grabbed it, doggone tight twist.
Cool, thanks for you feedback on the Celestron Zoom. Always nice to hear someone's thoughts!
Good helpful video u where right spending a bit more time with with my 200p dob has shown me that it's got its strengths its not as big of a difference as I thought but then again I didn't really no what they where to begin with 🤣 but 100% more light 🤷♂️ there definitely is difference especially with deep sky I now have a good idea of what scope I want its not an eq mount or an sct my next scope will be a 250p flex tube with goto as I like just poking around the sky quite abit finding something, then finding out what it is 🤣 and the eq mount is no good for that really and the same with the next star sct it's no good without power but the goto dob can be used as a normal dod but when I can't find what I'm looking for the goto will do it for me
Thanks!
I also bought/tested both these eyepieces. The Baader was superior and sen’t the Celestron back.
👍👌
It is hard to compare when one costs over 250 % more than the other. The obvious winner would be the costly one. Good video
Yes, I would hope so!
Please this Baader hyperion Mark iv is compatible with monóculo celestron hummingbird 9x27?thanks
Hi, I'm not sure if the eyepiece is replicable on the spotting scope. It likely is not.
APM just released a constant fov zoom eyepiece ;)
7.7mm to 15.4mm with an apparent field of view of constant 75° over the entire adjustment range.
Very cool, I'll need to check that out!
Can you do the Pentax zoom as well?
Id love to but have not come across one yet... They don't come up for sale on the used market much either.
The mechanism is Baader smooth🙂
LOL, well said.
The Baader is 3 times the price ! It's like comparing a Corolla to a Lexus...
It is, but some people still want to know how the Carolla compares to the Lexus 👍
@@AVTAstro price, quality, (and more)...but keeping in mind that I'm comparing with regards to a 300$ Baader and a 99$ Celestron. I've watched good reviews with eyepieces in the same price category, that's all.
Ill bet that some items sold for 3 times cheaper than a premium will perform better than 1/3 of that premium device. That why these comparisons are definitely worth doing
Have both hardly any difference between them, also have Celestron M2 100ED spotting scope with zoom that's amazing just as good as the Baader.
Overall the Baader zoom is not worth £237.
So wait the much wider FOV and the better light thruput is not obvious to you??? I pretty sure most people pulled off the street would be able to see the diffrance if I told them what to look for.
Generally you pay for what you get these days, i think the older stuff is made better and the quality is superior, bit like older cars from lzte 90s to early 2000s, they print more money and quality starts to slide but you get more fancy names and coatings to try sell you it, its all about cost these days with most people and Corporations.
Not sure that most astro stuff was better made. Overall, everything is less expensive now and better in the hobby. But see what you're saying generally speaking.
Great, not even one view through the lens.
As in you want a video view through it????
dude i like you vids - BUT you take SOOOOOOOOOOOO long to make a point. come on man - cant you just get to it?
What can I say, I guess I'm a little slow buddy...😅🤣🤣🤣🤣