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Tony,
We've had a few of the Meade QX Series pass through our shop, but I have not had the opportunity to put them through any testing under dark skies. Daylight testing suggests that the eye relief is fairly tight. You have to push your eye in pretty close to take in the entire available field. They seem pretty sharp in daylight when tested in a TeleVue 85 at f/7. One eyepiece was returned by a customer who had tested it in daylight using our TV-85, claiming that it really fell apart in a f/5 scope. That's a second hand opinion, for what it is worth.
As for the Meade Series 5000, they continue to trickle out. Thus far all we have seen are what they call the "Plossls". Apparently the three shortest focal lenghts of the Ultrawides are also shipping in limitied quantities.
Clear Skies,
Bob
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