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Old 03-06-2016, 09:24 PM
Wavytone
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Well... to state the obvious there is an LVW42mm, and I have one as the eye relief is important to me (specs), and IMHO I don't value the ultra wide fields of views particularly in low power eyepieces. There is something to be said for having a black field stop limiting the apparent field of view and maximising your dark adaption.

The Nagler, Panoptic or ES 30mm 82 degree are alternatives.

However: in my scope the LVW42 appears be pretty much uniform optically across the whole field, i.e. pinpoint, no ghosts, no odd reflections.

The ES30/82 is pretty good but has less eye relief. Most of the field is flat and sharp but the outermost 10% shows lateral chromatic error and with bright objects near the edge there is a nasty internal reflection off the inside of the draw tube. One downside of this eyepiece is that it is a real monster the size of a house brick - 1kg - and enough to possibly upset the balance of a C11.

Naglers and Pans... very good as one would expect if you want to pay that much, however the eye relief is again much shorter than the LVW42.

Last edited by Wavytone; 03-06-2016 at 09:35 PM.
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