Astromania Telescope Eyepiece 1.25 inch HD Fully Multi Coated Telescope Accessory, 66 Degree Ultra Wide Angle Eyepiece for Astronomy Telescope, Long Eye Relief HD 15mm Wide Angle Telescope Eyepiece

5 reviews for Astromania Telescope Eyepiece 1.25 inch HD Fully Multi Coated Telescope Accessory, 66 Degree Ultra Wide Angle Eyepiece for Astronomy Telescope, Long Eye Relief HD 15mm Wide Angle Telescope Eyepiece

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   Rated 5 out of 5

   – April 1, 2024 Ray Roob I

   It gives a great sharp, bright, wide angled view in a telescope. The price is unbelieveably low too.

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   Rated 5 out of 5

   – May 5, 2024 Candida Weissnat

   This has quickly become one of my favorite eye pieces. I’m using an 8 inch dob 12000mm and this is just the right amount of zoom for me! Stars seem clear and crisp, the moon is SUPER sharp, and the field of view is amazing!

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   Rated 5 out of 5

   – July 24, 2024 Constance Weissnat I

   I ordered two to use in a new, very expensive 120mm binoscope, so as to evaluate the use of such a high magnification with this instrument. Given that the price of these is so much lower than the brands which typify “high quality eyepieces”, I didn’t expect much.I was seriously wrong.After first light with these, I was left with the feeling “well…they work…”, but I wasn’t blown away.Until, I borrowed a buddy’s 6mm Delos, and plopped it into one of the binoscope’s 2 eyepiece holders while leaving the Astromania 6 mm in the other holder. Now, they are extremely different designs – one has a 66 degree field of view, the other 72 degrees. One is about 3 inches long, the other is about 7 inches long, so when I started switching back and forth from one to the other, I expected the comparison to be fruitless – the Astromania would be darker, have less contrast and less visual acuity, and visual aberrations…Wrong! This little guy works incredibly well! The comparison left me with the thought that the $300+ Delos is better, but not by amount of the price difference.The final test was a taking a peek at Polaris and seeing if I could split the double (see both stars that make up that system). I live in the City of San Francisco, and was viewing from outside my home there, so seeing is typically degraded by proximity to the ocean and always by the excessive light pollution. But low and behold, I could spit the faint partner in that system with both! But, when I substituted the Delos with a 3mm Nagler from the same company which makes the Delos, I was shocked to see the difference – I could not see the faint double through the 3mm Nagler, while it was clear as day in the 6mm Astromania!I would recommend that you try this out if you’re certain that a 6 mm would be good for your setup.

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   Rated 5 out of 5

   – November 20, 2024 Mr. Lance Heidenreich

   I got into Astrophotography back in the 80s. This was when we took hour long photos with hypered film and were glued to the guide scope making minor tracking corrections and hoping an airliner didn’t cross our field of view and ruin our photo.Today, I am just a casual observer and use an old Celestron C8 SCT mounted on a Polaris equatorial mount. I have a place out in the middle of nowhere in East Central ArIzona at 6000 ft elevation. There is no light pollution out here and the sky is phenomenally dark.I use to have a large Halliburton case full of expensive eyepieces mostly Televue Naglers, Teleview Panoptics, and Meade Ultra Wides. I boiled my collection down to 3 eyepieces; a Meade 2″ 8.8mm Ultra Wide, a Meade 2″ 40mm Super Wide, and an old Meade 1.25″ 20mm Erfle which has the same specs as this Astromania 20mm. I use that old 20mm eyepiece for the vast majority of my viewing. When I want more magnification or more filed of view I switch to the others.Last night I spent a couple of hours viewing Ursa Major (big dipper) and Canes Venatici. Good assortment of deep sky object and double stars. I switched back and forth between my old Meade 20mm and this Astromania 20mm eyepiece. It was pretty hard to tell the difference between them. Both have good eye relief and both are a little fuzzy around the outer viewing edge. I was able to view with eyeglasses on to check the amount of eye relief but I don’t normally view using eyeglassses.I installed an eyepiece filter onto the Astromania eyepiece to check that the threads were machined adequately and they are. The eyepiece comes with plastic dust caps for both ends. I didn’t see any visual defects in the glass.Can you find a better 20mm eyepiece – sure, but not at this price. If you are new into astronomy and are looking for a good multipurpose eyepiece that won’t break your piggybank you can’t go wrong here.

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   Rated 5 out of 5

   – December 14, 2024 Karolann Jaskolski PhD

   Pretty decent quality for the money!