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Don't spray any cleaner directly on the lens as it could creep around the edges of the lens and get inside.
Instead, spray your cleaner on the q-tip and use the wet q-tip to clean the glass.
Make a spiral circle from center to edge.
Flip the q-tip over to the dry end and repeat, mopping up the fluid left by the wet end.
Repeat with a second q-tip with wet end and dry end.
Grab a 3rd q-tip and making a swipe from edge to just past center on a radial line, wipe back and forth as you rotate the eyepiece under the q-tip.
After about one revolution of the eyepiece, flip the q-tip over and continue for at least one more rotation of the eyepiece.
If the eyepiece is clean at this point, you're done.
But if you see spots, get the eyepiece lens wet with a solvent-carrying q-tip again only this time, mop the eyepiece dry and clean with a new, unused, soft microfiber cloth, and go around the entire lens until there are no spots.
Unless you're cleaning a filthy eyepiece, I doubt you'll ever get past the q-tip cleaning.
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