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Are Plossl eyepieces any good?
The four element Plossl design is perhaps the most popular telescope eyepiece design on today’s market and just about every manufacturer makes one. It provides excellent image quality, good eye relief and just about all of them have an apparent field of view of about 50 degrees.
What is the difference between Plossl and super Plossl?
A true plossls has 2 doublets of differing size whereas modern “plossls” use a pair of identical doublets.
Are Orion eyepieces good?
It’s no surprise that the eyepieces in our Sirius Plossl line are our best-selling telescope eyepieces. Quality this good usually costs a lot more. Offering a wide 52° apparent field of view, these 10mm, 17mm, and 25mm Orion Sirius Plossl Telescope Eyepieces provide extremely sharp images of impressively high contrast.
What is the best zoom eyepiece?
Here are three excellent zoom eyepieces that can be great additions to any telescope accessory bag.
- Budget Zoom Eyepiece: Celestron 93230 8-24mm 1.25 Zoom Eyepiece.
- Mid-Priced Zoom Eyepiece: Orion 8-24mm Pro Lanthanum Zoom Eyepiece.
- High-End Zoom Eyepiece: Baader Hyperion Universal Mark IV Zoom Eyepiece.
What is the difference between 1.25 and 2 eyepieces?
A 2″ eyepiece will have a larger field stop than a 1.25″ giving you a wider field of view. Typically this would be for eyepieces 30 – 40mm focal length. Usually you only need one eyepiece in this range for your lowest power views.
What is an aspheric eyepiece?
An aspheric lens or asphere (often labeled ASPH on eye pieces) is a lens whose surface profiles are not portions of a sphere or cylinder. Aspheric eyeglass lenses allow for crisper vision than standard “best form” lenses, mostly when looking in other directions than the lens optical center.
What do you mean by a Plossl eyepiece?
The Wiki article (s) were very good if anyone else is confused. So, basically a Plossl eyepiece is a type of eyepiece that enables the viewer to see a wider field of view than would normally be the case, but at the cost of him/her having to physically put his eye very close to the lens of the eyepiece.
What kind of field of view does Plossl lens give?
The compound Plössl lens gives a huge 50° or more increasingly clear field of view, alongside moderately enormous FOV. This makes this eyepiece perfect for an assortment of observational purposes including profound sky and planetary review. Celestron halloween plossl eyepieces.
Is there a field stop in a Plossl eyepiece?
Somewhat, all eyepieces could offer a more extensive field of view, however, it would be at the expense of an irritating amount of contortion at the edge of the field. So a field stop is consolidated into the eyepiece barrel. This restrains the size of the field to a zone in the inside with minimal measure of contortion.
Is the Plossl Televue eyepiece a good value?
It might be argued that the Plossl has had its day. This would be true if you have deep pockets, because it can be roundly outlcassed by the modern exotics both on edge of field sharpness and on field of view. However, the premium TeleVue Plossls are good value and… good, full stop.