TeleVue Panoptic 22mm

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TeleVue Panoptic 22mm
beautiful image quality, high contrast; one of the best I've seen

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TeleVue Panoptic 22mm
Very sharp, wide field EP. Sharp to edge with great contrast. Good
all around EP.

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TeleVue Panoptic 22mm
my favorite medium power eyepiece. beautiful. sharp to the edge.

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TeleVue Panoptic 22mm
Noticeably sharper than a 20 Nagler, and shows a piece of sky almost
as large. Best overall performance of any eyepiece I've looked thru
in the 20mm-22mm range.

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TeleVue Panoptic 22mm
very good all around eyepiece. the 22 pan is in my focuser 75%
of the time. Image is bright and crystal clear to the edge.

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TeleVue Panoptic 22mm
Only flaw in this excellent eyepiece is distortion which can make you a bit woozy if you pan around. Otherwise, my favorite low power eyepiece.

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TeleVue Panoptic 22mm
I love this eyepiece (and so do all my friends..if it's not in my scope it's in one of theirs). It is remarkably sharp and bright. The only bad thing about it is its weight (about a pound) which really isn't too bad if you only compare it to other eyepieces in its class.

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TeleVue Panoptic 22mm
Probably my most used ep in a 10" f/10 scope. Excellent view! Versatility of 1.25" w/2" skirt is nice.

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TeleVue Panoptic 22mm
A great eyepiece. Sharp bright views and a manageable weight. It does have the well known Panoptic Pincushioning, but I really don't notice it unless I look for it. I would highly recommend this eyepiece to anyone. I find it offers the widest possible view with my 1.25" focuser, so I use it a lot for scanning the sky to find objects.

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TeleVue Panoptic 22mm
Best eyepiece I've looked through to date. Flawless.

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TeleVue Panoptic 22mm
My favorite eyepiece, period. I had used this exclusively with my 16 inch homemade dob, and now am enjoying the crisp views through my new 4 inch Celestron C102. Now I want the 15mm Panoptic. Bob Midiri

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TeleVue Panoptic 22mm
This is the best low power eyepiece I have ever looked through. This eyepiece has that Nagler spacewalk feel to it, but it also has the sharpness and contrast typical of the Panoptic design. I actually prefer the Panoptic 22 over the Panoptic 19, in every scope that I have been fortunate enough to compare them in. Highly recommended.

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TeleVue Panoptic 22mm
This one's a keeper! I can't find anything to complain about. A medium-power eyepiece with a wide enough field of view to easily pan around and starhop. Awesome sharpness to edge of 68° field. My roommate thought I was nuts to spend $265+ on an eyepiece, but when he looked through it after using Celestron Ultimas, his jaw dropped and he readily agreed it was worth every penny!

I haven't had a chance to go deep-sky with it yet, but Ed Ting (www.scopereviews.com) says it's one of the best eyepieces around for that.

It's a hybrid 1.25"/2", so it works fine in either flavor of focuser. After using this eyepiece, I simply had to order a 2" focuser and a 35mm Panoptic, I love these sharp wide-field views!!

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TeleVue Panoptic 22mm
I picked this one up on the used market for ~US$240. All I can say is that it has become my first in the focuser, last out of the focuser ocular. The wide field is a joy, edge performance is amazing, the sky back ground darkness is so close to my Pentax smc orthos that it's scary. I only had a chance to use it a few times on some dsos in Sagittarius which included M22. The image was alive with well resolved stars and I felt like my scope just "got out of my way" and I was viewing totally unaided. Hard to describe this effect.
This one will never leave me, now I'm thinking of the rest of the line.

Bill

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TeleVue Panoptic 22mm
This eyepiece has the widest/sharpest true field of any 1.25-inch "wide field" eyepiece. Its 68 degree apparent field is wide enough that I don't feel like I'm missing anything (i.e., an 82 degree apparent field)when I'm using it. I recently had a chance to compare it to the new 22mm Nagler. That Nagler is as great as everyone is saying it is. However, I'm not a fan of the click-stop inst-adjust eyeguard so I decided to keep the Panoptic and pass of the Nagler.

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TeleVue Panoptic 22mm
Probably my favorite eyepiece (8" SCT meade LX200). Pretty good contrast, wide field of view, I'd recomend it to anyone.

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TeleVue Panoptic 22mm
I purchased this eyepiece two week ago for use with my 8inch Dobsonian. The first impressions was the wide field that allowed me to look around the sky, the other was for the first time I could see a slight red tinge in the darker parts of Orion nebulae. Looking at Jupiter with the eyepiece fitted to a X5 Power Mate there was only a sight improvement in contrast over a 25mm plossl also fitted a Powermate, although this was enough allow me to see Jupiter’s moons as very small disks instead of blurry dot. The main advantage over the plossl was the large field, which meant when fitted to the Powermate I didn’t need to adjust the scope as often before Jupiter moved out of view. To over come the half kilo weight of the eyepiece, I used a right angle welder’s magnet with felt pad that could side up and down the steel telescope tube to balance the scope.

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TeleVue Panoptic 22mm
I own and have owned many premium eyepieces from Televue, Pentax, Takahashi, Vixen, Ultima, University Optics, etc. The 22mm Panoptic is the best I've ever looked through. It has the perfect balance of eye relief, field size, size and weight. It is unbelievable sharp with excellent light throughput and contrast. The bottom line is that everything looks better in a 22mm Panoptic. Every astronomy enthusiast should own one.

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TeleVue Panoptic 22mm
I had the opportunity to compare the 22mm Panoptic/2.5X Power Mate combination directly against a 9mm Nagler in my friend's extremely high quality reflector (Note to APO owners - yes, there is such a thing as an extremely high quality reflector). Until then, the 9mm Nagler had always held its own for sharpness against orthos and plossls in viewing the planets. I didn't think it possible, but there was no doubt, the 22mm Panoptic/2.5X Power Mate combination gave somewhat sharper, crisper and more contrasty views of both Jupiter and Saturn. My thoughts at the time were that while the 9mm Nagler's images were very good to excellent, I had just witnessed perfection.

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TeleVue Panoptic 22mm
Being aware of the fact that there is no best eyepiece for all different telescopes (since these have different field curvatures) I am extremely pleased with my PO-22 which delivers 29 x combined with a good 2 degrees fow in my TAK FCT-100! Contrast and edge sharpness are a perfect match with this top-notch refractor!

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