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Old 06-01-2009, 11:24 PM
Wavytone
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LVW's...

I have three sets. The "good ones" are Vixen LVW's - the 8, 13 and 22 and an NLVW 30mm, all roughly the same size (big) and weight (heavy).
http://web.me.com/nicholas.loveday/S...epieces.html#3 These are mainly for an f/15 Maksutov.

Eventually I also finally decided to build up a modest set of Vixen LV's - 4, 6, 10, 15 and 25 mm - for two reasons:

- I don't want to reach for the LVW's every time at a public star party or just for friends where they won't know the difference and I'd expect to have to clean the gunk off from peoples eyes afterwards, and

- the LVW's are too heavy for when i am using my smaller and lighter 102mm refractor - I have to rebalance the mount between eyepiece changes and that irritating. The Vixen LV's are smaller, lighter and the refractor balance is insensitive to these.

The third is a set of Edmund RKE's, which i don't use anymore.

Last edited by Wavytone; 07-01-2009 at 01:10 PM.
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