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60° apparent field
Celestron X-Cel LX 7mm
Selected by Skynocular
Good fit· Celestron X-Cel LX 7mm on the Celestron NexStar 8SE
Why this eyepiece?
- ✓Brings out more structure in the nebula's bright core
Tradeoffs
- –Too tight to frame the whole nebula
- –Dims at this power, making faint detail harder to see
Try a longer focal length eyepiece for a wider field
Large and bright — fills most low-power fields. The glowing gas of a stellar nursery 1,350 light-years away.