Wilmer Skidmore: Hi Sadie -Well, you can certainly find Meade accessories at the Meade website:http://www.meade.com/Or you can find compatible stuff on the Orion website:http://www.telescope.com/control/main/Personally, I think some of your more useful accessories at this stage might include a collimation eyepiece and a nebular filter of some kind. Colored filters provide limited benefits and are not used frequently, but nebular filters help a lot with certain objects. Additional eyepieces are a good idea, but I would wait until you can afford good ones. You might also consider some kind of case to organize and carry your accessories in....Show more
Rona Ising: You can get a few more eyepieces. I don't know which ones it comes with, but I always keep around a 12mm, 25mm, and 40mm. 40mm is good for wide fields - Andromeda and star clusters. 25mm is good for most things - globular clusters, a few galaxies, nebulae, the Moon. 12mm is good for close-ups of planets a! nd binary stars, but can get fuzzy or hard to see through on an unstable mount. Solar filters are good too, but ONLY the one that goes over the tube! Never use a solar filter that only goes in the eyepiece; the smallest scratch on it can permanently ruin your vision....Show more
Clemente Schoeck: A filter can help you to reduce excess glare, but it is not going to add detail or resolution. A good eyepiece or two, and a 30-50mm optical finder would be a great improvement for your scope. Red dot finders make it easy to target brighter objects, but to get the scope pointed at most objects, you will need light gathering and some magnification.
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