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Old May 21st 15, 08:13 AM posted to sci.astro.amateur
RichA[_6_]
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Default When gear heads by eyepieces

On Wednesday, 20 May 2015 11:59:00 UTC-4, palsing wrote:
On Wednesday, May 20, 2015 at 3:51:20 AM UTC-7, wrote:
On Wednesday, May 20, 2015 at 12:23:52 AM UTC-4, palsing wrote:


Whatever, these guys are terrific planetary eyepieces...


Are you damning them with faint praise?


Not at all, these guys are highly regarded by many folks who like to observe the planets, planetary nebulae or double stars, especially at high powers, even though they have a very restricted 32-degree field-of-view when compared to most modern eyepieces. See this...

http://www.cloudynights.com/documents/tmb.pdf

... and check out the chart on the last 2 pages... and this review...

http://ejamison.net/equipment_reviews3.html

... and there are many others to be found, too.


So fantastic...they stopped making them due to lack of demand. But, if anyone is interested and you know a good machinist, you can always have barrels made and buy 10/20 scratch/dig triplet lenses from a good supplier and get something similar to the monocentrics.