As a result, aiming the Aurora 114 with precision can be somewhat difficult. The finder provided with the Aurora 114 is an extremely low-quality red-dot sight with a tinted window, a tiny switch, and a lot of difficulty making fine adjustments. We would consider the 26mm acceptable enough the 9.7mm is noticeably a less-than-stellar experience compared to a more expensive and high-quality eyepiece. There are certainly worse eyepieces, but these aren’t fabulous ones either. The 9.7mm is also rather short on eye relief, forcing you to jam your eye into it to take in the full (albeit narrow) field of view. The apparent field of view of both is a bit less than 50 degrees, and they suffer from glare and ghost images. While the Plossl design is capable of providing sharp images, these eyepieces are unusually cheap (though thankfully the optics are still glass). The Explore One Aurora 114mm Reflector includes two 1.25” Plossl eyepieces: a 26mm providing 20x magnification and a 9.7mm for 52x. They’re bolted to a Vixen-style dovetail plate, which is interchangeable quickly and easily with almost any other astronomical mount you would want to use the Aurora 114 on. To attach to its mount, the Aurora 114 uses a pair of standard tube rings, which allow you to slide and rotate the tube for balance. There is a little bit of wobble and backlash, but it works fine at all but the highest magnifications. The focuser on the Aurora is a plastic 1.25” rack-and-pinion design.
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