GSO 1.25" 2.5x Apochromatic Barlow Lens # BL251

hi everyone I'm Ken with Orion telescopes and binoculars and here we're talking about Barlow's so as you can see there's a lot to choose from so let me go through each one and give you the pros and where they would work best for you well the first thing to decide when you're picking a Barlow is what magnification range you want you probably should look at your eyepiece collection now see where there's some gaps see what two times your focal lengths would give you versus three times see if there's any overlap there but usually it's gonna be a little bit of overlap that really can't be helped sometimes but you get a feel for what magnifications would work best in general if you have a very short focus focal length refractor where it's difficult to get any high magnification to begin with a 3x might help just to boost that power up a little bit more than the normal but if you've got a medi