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TeleVue WideField 24mm

This eyepiece is no longer made, but sometimes you can get them on the used market. So I got mine.

Contrast and sharpenss is good to very good in the center and still good on the edges in a not too fast system. It behaves well in my 6"/1:5 Newtonian but works really better on my 1:10 refractor and on the 1:14 maksutov.

As far as I know it is a modified Erfle design with much better edge perfomance.

If you can get a hand on it for a reasonable price: go for it - you'll be not sorry, unless you can afford a Panoptic or a Nagler :-) this is a very good alternative.

Overall heartly recommended for people on budget.

Overall Rating: 9
Optics:8 Value:10
Weight: 1 (Unreliable Vote)
Date: 07/03/2002 04:04:37 am PST
By: Anonymous (xxx.xxx.108.96)
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TeleVue WideField 24mm

The 24mm wide field is a superb 1.25" lowpower eyepiece.I have had one for 12 years and I still love it.I almost sold my 24mm because I bought 2" 27mm panoptic last year I'm glad I didn't sell it.The TV 24mm is a bit better than a Meade 24.5 mm I compaired with so I'll keep it for my st80 which uses 1.25" only.The 24mm work's great in my st80,C6 and 12.5"f6 reflector.

Overall Rating: 10
Optics:10 Value:10
Weight: 1 (Unreliable Vote)
Date: 08/31/2002 12:53:08 pm PST
By: Anonymous (xxx.xxx.79.11)
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TeleVue WideField 24mm

I had a 24mm Panoptic but had to sell it when money became tight. Later I got an erfle but was a little disappointed not just with edge performance but overall contrast as well so I sold it. I recently picked up a used TV 24mm Widefield and am very impressed. Unlike some of the claims of the knockoff brands, this one is truly 90% of the performance of a Panoptic.

It has all of the contrast of TeleVue's later offering with darn good edge performance as well. The eye relief is just a tad shorter, (going by feel, don't have actual numbers before me), and the true FOV is slightly less but these are minor nits when looking for great performance at a reasonable price.

Back to the edge performance. That last 10-20% of the field starts to soften in my F6 achro while it may stretch to 25% in my F5 Newtonian. I really want to emphasize the word "soften". Not seagull's, not comets, just soft, somewhat bloated stars.

Pick one up if you get a chance. You'll be glad you did.
Mike

Overall Rating: 9
Optics:9 Value:9
Weight: 5 (Veritable Vote)
Date: 08/24/2006 02:27:31 pm PST
By: msuther
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