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Vixen LV
Since my STUPID sale of my Pentax 20mm, I had been using a Vixen LV 8-24 zoom. A decent EP (not QUITE parfocal), which shows good colour.
I recently bought a Vixen LV20, since I usually only do wide to medium fields. I of course compared the two in terms of clarity and performance, and found some interesting traits.
With some slight margin, the LV 8-24 zoom shows better colour. Interestingly though, in the SAME scope, on the same night, WELL after the scope had acclimated, the LV20 showed SIGNIFICANTLY more FAINT stars (compared to the zoom EP set at 20mm) in the same field.(NGC 4755 was MUCH better resolved and displayed more high magnitude stars). The LV20 also comes to an INCREDIBLY sharp focus - MUCH better than the Pentax EVER did.
Absolute convert to the LV EP's now. The FOV and eye relief is about right for me, so cannot see any benefit going to LVW's.
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