I would be very grateful to hear the thoughts of other IIS members concerning their experiences/views/opinions with either the Televue 3-6mm Nagler Zoom or the Takahashi LE 5mm?
I am looking to invest in one premium quality eyepiece for planetary observing and like both of these EP's but simply can't decide which might be the better purely in terms of optical performance.
Both have 10mm ER and the TV Zoom has the range of adjustable focal lengths (whereas the LE can be barlowed etc) but I have difficulty believing that a zoom eyepiece can genuinely rival the optical performance of a fixed focal length EP let alone a Tak LE. I make this last point because the one review I am able to find doing a head to head comparison of these two eyepieces actually seems to indicate that the TV zoom set at 5mm was better than the 5mm Tak LE.
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