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Old 19-03-2009, 12:28 PM
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Originally Posted by Wavytone View Post
If your budget is on a diet, the Vixen LV's (hard to find now) or NLV are good. If you can afford a better set though, a set of LVW will still have you heaps compared to Naglers and I really like the eyerelief.

I have the LVW 8, 13 and 22 and also a 30mm NLVW (rare beast, it's new), they are excellent. I also have a set of LV's: 4, 6 10, 15 and 25, I use these on occasions when I don't want to pull out the LVW's.

If you go LVW, though be sure you want to - the weight of these is so much more than smaller eyepieces (like the LV) that either you balance the scope for the LVW's and stick to them for the night, or balance for the LV's (or otehr small eyepieces) and stick to them.
I found with the Vixen LVs and LVWs that they were all parfocal with each other. I now have 5,8,13,17,22 and 42mm eyepieces. The 42mm is the only one which is not parfocal. I agree with Wavytone that they are heavy so balance may be an issue but for eye relief, contrast and field sharpness they are hard to beat. I find the 65 degree field of view just right without the effort of eye wandering and kidney beaning with outher wider eyepieces.

Last edited by allan gould; 19-03-2009 at 03:41 PM.
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