How to the TeleVue plossls stand up?
3 of these time tested tools are taken to task in this week's review contest winner...
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Excellent review, Timm. Concise, thorough and objective(no pun intended). You helped make me finalize my decision in favor of the TV Plossl.
Thanks - I have really enjoyed them, and I am glad you liked the review. I am also set to do more reveiws with my charts in the basement, so I'll try and find the time to do more. <br><br>Timm
That was a very good review and extremely useful. One of the more well written ones in a long while. <br><br>My point to add is what was covered in the review: I wear glasses with relatively thin lenses. Although I found the optical quality of the TV Plossels to be excellent, the eye relief made enjoying them impossible with glasses on. I switched to Radians and they have been fantastic- now I own practically the whole Radian line and they are my workhorse eyepieces. <br><br>Ivan
Thanks for the comments.<br><br>Being that I don't wear glasses, I think its fair to say that your opinion on them is probably 100% accurate, and is probably true for all plossls, which is why the Radians are so popular with folks who use glasses while observing.<br><br>Too bad the vision care health insurance doesn't pay the difference to go from a TV Plossl, to a TV Radian - LOL!<br><br>If they pay for your glasses, shouldn't they pay for your need to have longer eye relief eyepieces?<br><br>Timm<br><br><blockquote class="blockquote"><div class="italic"><i>Ivan Ong said:</i><br><br>That was a very good review and extremely useful. One of the more well written ones in a long while. <br><br>My point to add is what was covered in the review: I wear glasses with relatively thin lenses. Although I found the optical quality of the TV Plossels to be excellent, the eye relief made enjoying them impossible with glasses on. I switched to Radians and they have been fantastic- now I own practically the whole Radian line and they are my workhorse eyepieces. <br><br>Ivan</div></blockquote>
I also like the TV plossls very much.<br>Especially when using a scope on a driven mount.The 50 degree field is a little narrow when using an Alt Az mount like my Gibraltar.<br>I use a 4 inch Televue scope and generally stick to wide field eyepieces when using the scope on an Alt Az mount.<br>I have noticed that the Celestron Ultima barlow actually adds some color to the image. I never noticed this before until I started using an Apochromatic telescope.<br>I have found that the TV plossls have less color when used with a TV barlow rather than the Ultima.<br>Just my opinion.<br>Steve
Thanks for the comments - I would love to be able to do a comparison between barlows, but its not very practical to own more than one, I guess. <br><br>Which TV barlow do you own?<br><br>Timm<br><br><blockquote class="blockquote"><div class="italic"><i>steve Whitehouse said:</i><br><br>I also like the TV plossls very much.<br>Especially when using a scope on a driven mount.The 50 degree field is a little narrow when using an Alt Az mount like my Gibraltar.<br>I use a 4 inch Televue scope and generally stick to wide field eyepieces when using the scope on an Alt Az mount.<br>I have noticed that the Celestron Ultima barlow actually adds some color to the image. I never noticed this before until I started using an Apochromatic telescope.<br>I have found that the TV plossls have less color when used with a TV barlow rather than the Ultima.<br>Just my opinion.<br>Steve</div></blockquote>
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