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Originally Posted by Starkler
Once you get used to it, short eye relief eyepieces seem especially annoying. If only my 24mm panoptic had better eye releif  |
Geoff,
If it did I would definately own 1. Unfortunately a 5mm exit pupil and no glasses for me works about as good as lead and balloons. In this regard the 27mm Panoptic works nicely as it has about 18mm of eye-relief. The 26mm NT5 would be a lovely replacement for the 27mm Pan but unfortunately I can't justify that extra cost when 95% of my observing is done at higher powers on DSO's.
Mark,
Glad to hear you like the eyepiece, as I mentioned before its "not quite" as good at the EOF as the 5mm, 7mm and 10mm XW's but its very sharp on axis with excellent light transmission and contrast. Importantly its also very comfortable to use and IMO is still a 9.2/10 eyepiece despite the minor field curvature at EOF.
CS-John B