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Farpoint Light Shield for 12" Dobsonian Telescopes – Zhumell Z12, Apertura AD12, Orion SkyLine 12 Upgrade Kit 25" Collimation Kit bundles aStray light is the reason your Dob doesn't look like the eyepiece view you expected. Every open tube Newtonian has the same weakness: the front of the tube is a wide open aperture pointed at the sky and at everything else. A neighbor's porch light, a passing headlight, the Moon 40 away. That light spills down the tube wall, scatters, and lands on your secondary. You never see the source. You just see a view that's flat, milky, and low contrast, and