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Celestron NexStar 8SEWhirlpool

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Looking through

Celestron X-Cel LX 7mm

290× • 13′ • 0.7mm exit pupil

Frames both the spiral and its companion with enough scale to hint at the arms.

Good fits for Whirlpool

General

Everyday deep-sky & the Moon

Planetary

Planets, double stars & fine detail

Picked for Whirlpool through the Celestron NexStar 8SE. All 102 eyepieces are in “Change eyepiece or camera”.

Whirlpool through the eyepiece

← 13′ → true field

60° apparent field

M51

Celestron X-Cel LX 7mm

Selected by Skynocular

Excellent fit· Celestron X-Cel LX 7mm on the Celestron NexStar 8SE

Why this eyepiece?

✓Brings out more structure in the spiral arms
✓Still holds both galaxies together inside the field

Tradeoffs

–Dims at this power, making faint detail harder to see

A face-on spiral — its companion NGC 5195 is visible as a second smudge even in modest apertures.