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Originally Posted by The_bluester
I can't comment on these in particular, but most people are pretty leery about going near telescope optics with anything more aggressive than a fresh cotton ball and dedicated cleaning solution known not to damage coatings.
Cotton balls support them gently following the contour of the lens or mirror where most "Wipes" are more like tissue paper and need a bit of pressure to conform to the shape they are cleaning.
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Hello Paul,
It is interesting all the different opinions people have about cleaning delicate lenses. I find it strange that camera shops selling optical lenses more expensive than many telescopes would sell these specialised lens cleaning papers and wipes if they could damage the lenses? I recently purchased a compound microscope to study inner space as well. I did some research mostly about how to use immersion oil on the most powerful objective. The microscope users were incredibly specific about what they used to clean their objectives. One used Olympus lens wipes which I couldn't find anywhere and another used lens paper to blot off and clean the objective. Even Kimwipes, suggested in another post were frowned upon. Cotton wool and Q tips were never mentioned. A soft cotton cloth can be ised apparently. I'm sure that if the objective of a microscope is even lightly marked it would severely impact its functionality and so great care is taken. Of course these have to be combined with a blower to remove the dust and a lens cleaning fluid ( I have one from Bintel in the post) for a complete package. I have sourced some lens papers from a camera shop so I will purchase these for my microscope lenses and not to duplicate, my telescope lenses. Microfibre cloths were not recommended.
Cheers and thanks for your input