Hi all just a word to say my new ( to me ) Explore Scientific 6.7mm 82* eyepiece arrived the other day and I can say that its a beauty , very solid and well made .
It feels very like my TelVue eyepieces in the hand and that's very high praise indeed .
Looking down into the eye lens shows perfect greenish FMC's without any blemishes or sleeks , nice .
The TV's are a more purplish/green ( very un-scientific I know ) and looking up from underneath shows the same quality coatings as the eye lens. Oh yes its blackened and threaded for filters down there as well
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On the eyepiece body its-self I can see straight away that ES put pride in their manufactureing process , seeing that the engraving , machining , rubber grip and general fit and finish is top notch , just like TV's , I am very impressed with it so far but as they say , the proof is in the viewing but the weather at this time is really BAD!! so that will have to wait .
On the viewing/testing I will be putting this ES 6.7mm up against some stiff very opposition in the way of my 5 and 8 mm TV Radians , 9mm TV Nagler and a few Plossl's of around this focal length , I am looking forward to doing this
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I will be using my 2 refractors at f5.5 and f8 and my f10 Celestron SCT on the moon , planets and double stars . I know the TV's perform very well in these scopes so this ES will have to be up to it , I really hope it is as I like this eyepiece so far and if its capable it will live in my eye piece case filling a nice hole in my useable magnifications .
I will post more as the testing is being done , so stay tuned
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Brian.