I'll check out the Burgess too, thanks. The Baader is 23mm clear aperture.
If you are serious about visual planetary observing then best to buy a patch for one eye to give more relaxed viewing in a mono scope or use a real binocular.
Binoviewers contain beamsplitting prisms, mirrors and optical windows which all degrade the optical path.T Theres just no way around that.
Regards
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Originally Posted by Prickly
Hi Mark,
Keen to hear how the Baader Maxbrights go. I also noticed a new burgess optical binoviewer. This one has 24mm diameter barrel to avoid vignetting on 1.25 inch eyepieces 27mm prisms and 3 screws to centre the eyepeices. Also sells for about $300 US. Havent seen any reviews.
Interested to hear if anyone else has been able to use binoviewers sucessfully for detailed planetary viewing and if so what binoviewer / barlow/eyepiece combination.
The idea of planetary viewing with a binoviewer seems very attractive but its hard to see the point forking out the money if they images arent too great. Agree minimising optical surfaces would have to be a key factor. Some ortho eyepieces might go some way to achieving this and use of a high quality barlow?
Cheers
David
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