Optics Maintenance Products

The best strategy for optics cleaning is the opposite of football; the best offense is a good defense! The first step in optics maintenance is to prevent them from getting dirty in the first place. When that fails, clean carefully and sparingly. The products on this page are mainly intended for cleaning eyepieces and other relatively small optical surfaces.

When it comes to cleaning telescope optics, the brushes contained within a maintenance kit or lens pen are useful for the first step of removing any loose particles. After that we recommend purchasing supplies from a neighborhood drug store. Here in our shop we use sheets of natural cotton, isopropyl or methyl aclchohol, and acetone. Avoid products with artificial fragrances or any type lotion, as are common in rubbing alcohol. Please consult your telescope manual for specific instructions, or give us a call for a consultation.

Celestron Lens Pen

The Celestron lens pen is a superb tool that is perfect for cleaning binocular lenses, small aperture spotting scopes and telescopes, eyepieces and other optical items. We use it ourselves here in our telescope shop.

$9.95

Orion 6 Piece Optics Cleaning Kit

This compact kit contains everything you need to care for and preserve the optical surfaces of your telescope, binoculars, eyepieces, and accessories. All items come packaged in a handy, snap-shut plastic storage case.

$24.99