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Originally Posted by blindman
I am thinking of buying binoviewers, would WO perform well?
Any thoughts?
How many of you using them?
Have feeling it will be a good fun, even for stars, not to mention Moon, planets and DSO.
Cheers all, Neven
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I have been using the WO Binos for about 18 months now with my 14" f5.1 Dob. Absolutely amazing, on moon, planets, brighter globs, and nebulae,(M42 is fantastic).3-D views with both eyes engaged, and optical receptors in the brain firing, on both cylinders, gives space depth, and the moon looks like a globe, rather than a flat plate. I still go mono on most other stellar, and fainter, DSOs as some light is lost, due to the beam split, and extra glass, the photons have to negotiate.
The 20mm supplied WO (66deg) oculars, are up to the job, giving immersive views. I have tried GSO 15mm, and 25mm Plossls (52deg), but found no advantage with the 25s, as the AFOV gained nothing, on the supplied oculars. The 15s, I had trouble merging images, and FOV was tight. I have since aquired a pair of GSO 15mm Superviews (70deg), and these work really well, no merging of images problems, and nice wide field of view.
If you are using a Dob, the infocus issue has to be addressed. In my case, I had to reduce primary to secondary distance by around 1.75" to obtain focus with the supplied 1.6x corrector.
I highly recommend these units, (should have got mine a lot sooner). Real value for money. My best piece of kit.
Stephen.