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Well Mike came round last night with his Nagler 13mm and Panoptic 19mm plus a Panoptic 24mm. Had great fun even if we had trees and a street lamp at point blank to contend with. I'm so grateful for the opportunity to play these eyepieces off side by side along with my own eyepieces.
The Nagler and Panoptics are very different eyepieces as the demo proved. I had absolutely no kidney beaning or black-out issues with the Nagler and now understand the 82 degree "spacewalk" effect that Nagler folk rave about. By contrast the Panoptic was more natural with its 68 degree APOV, and I never noticed any 'pincushioning' when panning the scope. The Panoptic showed a little more detail in M42, making the bluish coloured gas cloud around Trapezium take on an almost 3D perspective, compared with slightly less detail and flatter perspective of the higher mag Nagler.
Both eyepieces were sharp to the edge and I did not notice any coma, softening at the edge in either eyepiece using my fast f4.72 dob. I actually found myself leaning more towards the Panoptic, although it's impossible to forget or dismiss the experience of a huge peripheral vision afforded by the 82 degree Nagler.
It's a tough one and I now have to sell one of my current eyepieces, the Hyperion 8mm, if Jo is to agree to me buying BOTH eyepieces!
Cheers
Pete
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